Not only the vat in which the juice was trodden out from the grapes, but in some cases the whole place for the reception of wine, grapes, and orchard-fruit. It was often a room excavated in the ground; thus the husbandman "dug a wine-press" in his vineyard, Matthew 21:33 . See also Proverbs 3:10 Joel 3:13 Haggai 2:16 . See WINE.