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From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Winefat
    (Mark 12:1). The original word (hypolenion) so rendered occurs
    only here in the New Testament. It properly denotes the trough
    or lake (lacus), as it was called by the Romans, into which the
    juice of the grapes ran from the trough above it. It is here
    used, however, of the whole apparatus. In the parallel passage
    in Matt. 21:33 the Greek word _lenos_ is used. This properly
    denotes the upper one of the two vats. (See WINE-PRESS
    T0003818.)