winetrough

English

Alternative forms

• wine trough

Etymology

From Middle English *wynetrough, *wyntrogh, from Old English wīntrog (“winepress”), equivalent to wine +‎ trough.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪnˌtɹɒf/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwaɪnˌtɹɔf/

Noun

winetrough (plural winetroughs)

1. Winepress.
   • 1925, Job, page 1017:

     When a man went to a heap of eight bushels of grain, there would be only four; if he went to draw off fifty barrels from the winetrough, there would be no more than twenty.

   • 2001, Marilyn Savage Gray, The Real Shakespeare, page 310:

     A winetrough is Verdun, Desainliens. Apparently from this passage, the distillation process of the grape juice in the winetrough has gone too far, and the thickening liquid is almost to the consistency of jelly!!

   • 2002, José Saramago, Journey to Portugal, page 245:

     They turn into a street slightly higher up, and there is the wine trough or lagariça: there was really no need for him to leave his shop, but that's the way he is, and the way this region is.