wring-house
English
Noun
wring-house
- The room or building where a cider press is stored.
- 1878, The Builder, 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, 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 […]
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