duck press

duck press (plural duck presses)

1. A machine used to extract the blood and bone marrow from a duck for use in pressed duck.
   • 1890, Thomas Jefferson Murrey, “English Snipe”, in Good Things from a Chafing Dish, page 94:

     Cut off the breast carefully from four snipe, put the frames in a duck press with a clove of garlic, two cloves, three whole pepper corns and a sprig of parsley, turn the screw and obtain all the juice possible.

   • 2016, Alex Prud'homme, The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act:

     As the bird's wings and legs, coated in mustard and bread crumbs, were whisked off to the kitchen for roasting, Dorin placed the bird's carcass into the duck press and added a gurgle of deep red Burgundy.