wring-house

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English

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Etymology

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From wring (press) +‎ house.

Noun

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wring-house

  1. The room or building where a cider press is stored.
    • 1878, The Builder[1], page 12:
      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 []
    • 1887, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders[2], London, page 209:
      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 []
    • 2000, Joan Marie Salzmann, The Harbin Newsletter[3], volumes 12-17, page 26:
      Apples from the estate orchards are collected and stored in the lofts above the wring-house []