Winepress

Definition

= basin ◄ hewn out of a rock or lined with plaster ► into which harvested grapes were thrown and trampled to squeeze out the juice, which from there flowed into a {L:trough or vat<SDBH:יֶקֶב>}; ≈ treading a winepress is often used as a figure of speech to refer to God's anger and punishment