Oil-press
A place for making oil (bed meaning a branch or wooden beam. In ancient oil-presses, a large and heavy wooden beam was used to crush olives).
(“And likewise the oil-press, which is built in rock with a single protection on its back, and the mountain blower descends and sows below until he makes for his oil-press two presses” – Bava Metzia 10:4.)
Translation
Expression (Hebrew)
בֵּית הַבַּד
Definition (Hebrew)
מָקוֹם עֲשִׂיַּת שֶׁמֶן (בַּד מַשְׁמָע עָנָף אוֹ קוֹרַת עֵץ. בִּיְּמֵי קֶדֶם, בְּבֵית הַבַּד הָיְתָה קוֹרַת עֵץ גְּדוֹלָה וּכְבֵדָה שֶׁבְּעֶזְרָתָהּ הָיוּ כּוֹתְשִׁים אֶת הָזֵתִים).
("וְכֵן בֵּית הַבַּד שֶׁהוּא בָּנוּי בַּסֶּלַע"– בָּבָא מְצִיעָא י׳ ד׳)