Middle English Dictionary Entry
pressǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pressǒur n. Also presour, pressur, prassur & pressor. |
| Etymology | OF; cp. AF pressour, pressur; CF pressoir, pressor. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A press for expressing juice from grapes, oil from olives, etc.; a wine press, oil press, etc.; also fig.; ~ hous, a building containing a wine press; (b) ?a cheese press; (c) a device for pressing or stretching cloth; (d) a receptacle for clothes, etc.; a clothespress; (e) a bed compressible for storing.
Associated quotations
a
- [ ?a1425 Alphita (Sln 284)188 : Torculor, pressorium, pressium idem., gallice, pressour. ]
- (1348) in Löfvenberg Contrib.Lex.96 : [A house called] la Pressourhous [and a wine press].
- c1350 Apoc.(1) in LuSE (Hrl 874)p.163 : He haþ þe pressoure [F le pressur du vin] of goddes wraþþe.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 24.11 : Among þe hipelis of hem þei resteden in myddai, þe whiche thristen þe pressouris [L torcularibus] tredid.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Joel 3.13 : Cum ȝe and discende ȝe, for the pressoure is ful.
- (1388) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)5.74 : [A] pressour [for making cider, worth 10 s.].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)316a/a : Sourissh þinges..laxeþ after mete, and þe cause is for þey bereþ doun þe mete, as it were a pressour oþer a wrynge.
- a1400 12 PTrib.(1) (Roy 17.B.17)50 : As þo pressure presses þo grapis, þat þo preciouse wyne may be departid fro þo dreggis, so god settis þo soule in þo pressure of tribulacion.
- a1425(?a1400) RRose (Htrn 409)3692 : For no man..Ne may nat..of the reysyns have the wyn, Tyl grapes be..drawen out of the pressure [F pressoirs].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)8b/b : Bachinal: a pressour.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)28b/b : Foris: a pressor a grapis.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)51b/b : Prelum: a pressor of grapes.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)52a/a : Pressorium: a pressoure.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)67b/a : Trochea [read: Trochlea]: a pressour.
- a1425 Roy.17.C.17 Nominale (Roy 17.C.17)666/14 : Hoc torcular: prassur.
- a1456(a1449) Lydg.Say.Nightingale (Trin-C R.3.20)304 : His crosse..is..Þe strong pressour of oure redempcycoun.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)184 : It thinketh it is streyned in a pressour [F un pressour] shet with a vys and loken.
- a1475(?a1430) Lydg.Pilgr.(Vit C.13)15897 : In a pressour off gret peyne, They kan ful offte A man dystreyne.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)55.1 : Halykirke as a grape in the pressure cries.
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)9046-7 : The holy croice may callet be a pressour pressing blode so bright, in whiche pressour presset was he.
- a1500 Almyghty god þt made (Cmb Ff.2.38)83 : As þe pressour from grapes presseþ þe wyne, So clensyþ angers þe soule.
b
- (1209) Pipe R.Winch17/36 : In sale, pressuris, pottis, pannis, et alio custo daeriæ.
- (a1451) Will York in Sur.Soc.45100 : Item, j pressour debilis, j d.
c
- c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) (Trin-C R.3.14)5.127 : Among þe riche rayes I rendrit a lessoun, Brochide hem wiþ a pakke nedle & pleit hem togidere, Putte hem in a pressour [vrr. presse, pryson] & pynnede hem þereinne, Til ten ȝardis oþer twelue tollide out þrittene.
d
- (1444) Will York in Sur.Soc.30100 : Lego eidem j pressur pro pannis custodiendis existentem in le forchaumbre.
- (1454) Will York in Sur.Soc.30171 : To the makyng of a presour for the capys to be kepyd in, iij l.
- (1471) Act Ripon in Sur.Soc.64154 : Lego..unum pressur in alta camera mea et meum copburde.
e
- (1411) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.clv : Item, j redell pendent ante lectum, pressur, Socii Prioris.