wring-house

English

Etymology

From wring (“press”) +‎ house.

Noun

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 […]