Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Prelum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

PRE'LUM. The press-beam for squeezing the juice out of grapes or olives (Vitruv. vi. 9. 3. Serv. ad Virg. Georg. ii. 241. Hor. Carm. i. 20. 9.); whence also put for the machine or press itself (TORCULAR); under which term the nature and action of the object is fully explained and illustrated.

2. The press-beam in a press for clothes, linen, or paper (Mart. ii. 46. 3. Plin. H. N. xiii. 23.), as exemplified by the following wood-cut.