Lewis Short
prēlum | prae- (noun N) : (), , premo
* A press.
* A press-beam for pressing grapes, olives, etc.; also, meton., a wine-press, oil-press (class.), Cato, R. R. 31: cola prelorum,Verg. G. 2, 242 (prela trabes sunt, quibus uva jam calcata premitur, Serv.); Vitr. 6, 9; Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 317; Dig. 19, 2, 19.
* A press for smoothing clothes: tua collucent prela lacernis,Mart. 2, 46, 3; cf. id. 11, 8, 5.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary