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Meaning of prensa

prensa: 1º_ It is a machine for compressing, printing or squeezing by pressure. In the case of the machine that was used in the printing of newspapers and periodicals, there is a case of metonymy, since written journalism in general began to be called 'press'. 3rd_ Pile up of things. 4th_ Inflection of the verb press. See verbs/press.; It is a device with two flat metal plates and that can be graduated, to compress something that is placed between them. Compression. It can also mean newspaper, diary, printing, die, stamper, publication. Guild of journalists, commentators or reporters.; Contraption with four columns in which the wagon was placed with the mass of the olive to squeeze it and remove the oil and the perchín.