coclear
- a spoon, Mart. l. l.; Cels. 6, 14; Plin. 28, 2, 4, § 19; Petr. 33, 6 al.—As a measure for liquids, esp. in medicine, a spoonful, = half a cheme or 1/144 of a cotyla, Rhem. Fann. Pond.; Col. 12, 21, 3; Plin. 23, 4, 38, § 76; 27, 4, 5, § 17, and the above passages with coclearium.
Cochlear, Mensura, apud Corn.
Van Gesteltom. 2. Hist. archiep. Mechlin. pag. 148 :
Nosocomium Alostanum habet privilegium,... ut nullum ibidem granum vendi possit ruri advectum, quin inde certam mensuram, quam Coclear vocant, acceperint.
Clocarium, Turris ecclesiæ, in qua campanæ pendent. Ordinat. MS. offic. div. in eccl. Lugdun. :
Panitarius debet purgare totam ecclesiam extra chorum usque ad portas occidentales et subtus Coclearium... Item panitarius tenetur resarcire in trabibus et postibus Coclearium,... et omnes alias expensas, tam in Cocleari, quam in aliis locis ecclesiæ.Vide supra Cloquarium et Coclerium.
COC´LEAR(cocleare, coclearium, coclearum ;κοχλιάριον, or better λίστριον[Phryn. 293; Pollux, 6.87, 10.89], κοχλιώρυχον) was a kind of spoon, the bowl of which was usually round, while the handle was narrow and pointed. (The ligula, on the contrary, more nearly resembled our spoons.) The pointed end was used for drawing snails (cocleae) out of their shells, and eating them, whence it derived its name; and the broader part for eating eggs, &c. Martial (Mart. 14.121) mentions both these uses of the coclear, --Sum cochleis habilis nec sum minus utilis ovis. (Compare Plin. Nat.28.19; Petron. 33.) In the accompanying illustration we give coclearia found at Pompeii (Mus. Borbon. x. pl. xlvi.; Antiq. du Bosphore Cimmérien, pl. 30.5; Schmidt, Antiq. d'Avenches, pl. xxiv.).
Coclear was also the name given to a small measure like our spoonful. According to Rhemnius Fannius, it was 1/24 of the cyathus. (Cf. Isid. Orig. 16.26, 3.)
[W.S] [J.H.F](κοχλιάριον λίστριον). A kind of spoon which appears to have terminated with a point at one end, and at the other was broad and hollow like our own spoons. The pointed end was used for drawing snails (cocleae) out of their shells and eating them, whence it derived its name; and the broader part for eating eggs, etc. Martial mentions both these uses of the coclear (xiv. 121): Sum cocleis habilis nec sum minus utilis ovis.
Coclear was also the name given to a small measure like our spoonful. According to Rhemnius Fannius, it was 1/24 of the cyathus. See Isid. Orig. xvi. 26, 3; and the article ligula.