Home › Words › W › winetroughwinetrough/ˈwaɪnˌtɹɒf/winetrough means winepress.winetrough is pronounced /ˈwaɪnˌtɹɒf/.EtymologyFrom Middle English *wynetrough, *wyntrogh, from Old English wīntrog (“winepress”), equivalent to wine + trough.nounWinepress.e.g.“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.” — 1925, Job, page 1017:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).