depresses

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"Having five huge winepresses right next to each other shows that there is industrial design over here," Seligman said, describing the complex, which authorities plan to open to the public.

From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2021

Like Harry and Sally, the movie is hardworking, spot on; it winepresses its conversation into epigrams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most satisfactory of all pressing devices is the human foot and many a European vineyard is the scene of an annual Bacchanal, peasants dancing barefoot in the winepresses.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are tilling the ground, gathering in the corn, pruning the vines, and standing bare-footed in the winepresses to tread out the juice of the grapes.

From The King's Cup-Bearer by Walton, O. F., Mrs.

The fifth point is that they talk of the concession of the Sangley winepresses which have been conceded to the seminary for orphan boys.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander