hotpress

See also: hot press

English

Etymology

hot +‎ press

Verb

hotpress (third-person singular simple present hotpresses, present participle hotpressing, simple past and past participle hotpressed)

1. (transitive) To apply both heat and mechanical pressure to something, especially as part of a laundry process, or as a method of printing.
2. (transitive) To apply both heat and mechanical pressure in order to extract oil or juices.

   Coordinate term: coldpress

   • 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XLVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 296:

     She remembered, when a girl, seeing a short poem written by the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire, for which her papa gave three guineas; she did not suppose there was a single copy sold in the city or the country, so that her grace had really the satisfaction of knowing that her beautiful hotpressed folio was opened alone by courtly hands.

Alternative forms

• hot press

Derived terms

• hotpressed

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