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wring-house en · NOUN

Etymology

From wring (“press”) + house.

Meanings

  1. The room or building where a cider press is stored.
    • Down in the heart of the apple-country nearly every farmer kept a cider-making apparatus and wring-house for his own use, building up the pomace in great straw 'cheeses', as they were called[…] 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders, London, page 209:
    • Apples from the estate orchards are collected and stored in the lofts above the wring-house[…] 2000, Joan Marie Salzmann, The Harbin Newsletter, volumes 12-17, page 26:
    • A building comprising granary and corn-store and machinery under, provided with the requisites to be worked by a water-wheel 20 ft. diameter; also, cyder-store, wring-house, and apple-loft over, is attached to a mill-stream adjacent, close to the homestead at a much lower level[…] 1878, The Builder, page 12: