Also 1, 5 wringe, 4–6 wrynge, 9 ring. [OE. wringe, f. wringan WRING v. Cf. OE. wín-wringe.]
1. A cider-press or wine-press.
c. 890. Wærferth, trans. Gregory’s Dial., 250. Sanctulus … brohte æmtiʓe cyllan þyder to þære wringan.
a. 1350. in Relig. Lyrics 14th C. (1924), 28. Þy schroud red wyth blod … Ase troddares in wrynge. Ibid. Þe wrynge ich habbe y-trodded al mysulf on.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XIX. xxxviii. (B.M. Add. MS. 27944). Sourisshe þinges … bereþ doun þe mete as it were a pressoure oþer a wrynge.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., I. 495 (Colchester MS.). Oilmylles, wheeles, wrynges,… I nyl not speke of nowe. Ibid., XI. 107. Erly sette on werkyng hem [sc. olives] the wrynge.
1532–3. in Weaver, Wells Wills (1890), 155. The dragge, and the wrynge, and the vate.
1664. Newburgh, in Evelyn, Pomona, 42. The Cider, bottled immediately from the wring.
1844. W. Barnes, Dorset Gloss., 370. Wring, a press, as a cider-wring.
c. 1906. in Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v., Cider from the wring.
2. A cheese-press.
[1670. in C. Worthy, Devon. Wills (1896), 27. A cheese wring.]
1892. T. Hardy, Tess, I. 226. The measured dripping of the whey from the wrings downstairs.
3. Wring-house, the house or shed where a cider- or cheese-wring is kept.
1807. Vancouver, Agric. Devon (1813), 472. Wring-house for making cider.
1842. G. Pulman, Rustic Sketches, 52. In th’ ringhouse hard to work, Th’ mill da grind.
1886. T. Hardy, Woodlanders, xiii. His dwelling, cider-cellar, wring-house.
