winetrough
/ˈwaɪnˌtɹɔf/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "When a man went to a heap of eight bushels of grain, there would be only four; if he went to draw off fifty barrels from the winetrough, there would be no more than twenty."
- "A winetrough is Verdun, Desainliens. Apparently from this passage, the distillation process of the grape juice in the winetrough has gone too far, and the thickening liquid is almost to the consistency of jelly!!"
- "They turn into a street slightly higher up, and there is the wine trough or lagariça: there was really no need for him to leave his shop, but that's the way he is, and the way this region is."
Etymology
From Middle English *wynetrough, *wyntrogh, from Old English wīntrog (“winepress”), equivalent to wine + trough.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *wynetrough, wīntrog
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwaɪnˌtɹɔf/
- British English: /ˈwaɪnˌtɹɒf/