press

puristus

painella

punnertaa

penkki

kaappi puhekieltä A device used to apply pressure to an item.

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But then I had the massive flintlock by me for protection. ¶(..)The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,(nb..).

This is the fourth set of benchpresses. There will be five more; then there will be five sets of presses on an inclined bench(nb..).

I have misused the king's press.

to press fruit for the purpose of extracting the juice

She took her son, and pressd''

The illustrious infant to her fragrant breast (Dryden, Illiad, VI. 178.)

to press cloth with an iron

to press a hat

to press a crowd back

He turns from us;

Alas, he weeps too! Something presses him

He would reveal, but dare not.-Sir, be comforted. (Fletcher, Pilgrim, I. 2.)

The two gentlemen who conducted me to the island were pressed by their private affairs to return in three days.

to press the Bible on an audience

He pressed a letter upon me within this hour.

Be sure to press upon him every motive.

to press a horse in a race

God heard their prayers, wherein they earnestly pressed him for the honor of his great name. (Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 35)

If we read but a very little, we naturally want to press it all; if we read a great deal, we are willing not to press the whole of what we read, and we learn what ought to be pressed and what not. (M. Arnold, Literature and Dogma, Pref.)

To peaceful peasant to the wars is pressed.

stoppa pressarna

stop the presses