Wiktionary
n. An enclosed storage space, typically with slatted shelving and built around a house's hot water system to generate a low dry heat, used to dry damp clothing.
Wikipedia
Hot press may mean:
- Hot Press, an established Irish music and political fortnightly founded in 1977
- regional name for an airing cupboard in Ireland and Scotland
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hot pressing, any form of a machine press which uses heat – in particular:
- sintering with pressure
- Hot Press, a Dublin-based music and politics magazine
Usage examples of "hot press".
From the red-hot press, and the wooden boxes, and amongst the racks and racks of type, and even out of the piles of carefully stockpiled metal, thin streams began to flow.
He felt the weight, the hot press of her nipples, the wild thunder of her heart.
They'll be jumpy, and I bet the Fleet was manned with a hot press o' yokels who still don't know a yardarm from a farmyard.
Men like them were to be found aboard most men-of-war in a time of hot press, and an established ship's company could wear a certain number without much harm.
Men like them were to be found aboard most men-of-war in a time of hot press, and an established ship’.
This place demanded crowding -- a hot press of several hundred brightly colored bodies, hyped to wear their standing waves exposed, ultrasensitive, like the prickly emotions of teenagers.