Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:
The Hebrew wine-fat, vat, or press, consisted of an upper and lower receptacle, the former for treading the grapes, the latter for catching the juice
(Isa. 63:3; Joel 3:13; Hag. 2:16).
Concise Bible Dictionary:
Ancient winepress located at “The Garden Tomb” near the Damascus Gate.
These are said to be “trodden,” which signifies that the grapes were placed in a receptacle, and were trodden on by the feet, a pipe conveying the juice into a vessel at the side. Places have been found which apparently were used for this purpose: they are hewn out of a rock with a shallow channel by which the juice could escape (Judg. 6:11; Neh. 13:15; Job 24:11; Isa. 5:2; Isa. 63:2; Mark 12:1; &c). In Egypt the grapes were also pressed in a bag by its being twisted tighter and tighter.
Symbolically the vine-press is used as a figure of the execution of God’s judgments: the people, as grapes, are placed in the press, and there crushed: “and blood came out of the winepress, even unto horses’ bridles, by the space of 1600 furlongs”—about the extent of Palestine (Rev. 14:19-20; Rev. 19:15).
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Meaning:
probably from 5059 (in the sense of treading out grapes); a wine-press (or vat for holding the grapes in pressing them)
KJV Usage:
(wine-)press (fat)