thrashing-machine
THRASHING-MACHINE
*machina granis frumenti excutiendis; or perhaps tribula or tribulum (Verg. Georg. 1 164; Ov. Met. 13 803; Varr. R.R. 1 52; Plin. H.N. 18 30; this was a thick heavy board armed underneath with spikes or flints and drawn over the corn by a yoke of oxen).
*machina granis frumenti excutiendis; or perhaps tribula or tribulum (Verg. Georg. 1 164; Ov. Met. 13 803; Varr. R.R. 1 52; Plin. H.N. 18 30; this was a thick heavy board armed underneath with spikes or flints and drawn over the corn by a yoke of oxen).
thrashing-machine:
1. trĭbŭlum (also -a, f.): Col.: it was a wooden platform studded with sharp stones or iron teeth: Virg. G. 1, 164: Plin.: v. Dict. Ant.: another kind, consisting of bars of wood, set with teeth, and running on small wheels, was called "plostellum Punicum," Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1: it is joined with trăha (a kind of drag), Col. 2, 21, 4.
2. serra (prop. a saw: a t. with serrated wheels): Hier. in Amos 1.
3. a modern t. would prob. be better expr. by *machina, qua grana e spicis exteruntur, or similar phr.
1. trĭbŭlum (also -a, f.): Col.: it was a wooden platform studded with sharp stones or iron teeth: Virg. G. 1, 164: Plin.: v. Dict. Ant.: another kind, consisting of bars of wood, set with teeth, and running on small wheels, was called "plostellum Punicum," Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1: it is joined with trăha (a kind of drag), Col. 2, 21, 4.
2. serra (prop. a saw: a t. with serrated wheels): Hier. in Amos 1.
3. a modern t. would prob. be better expr. by *machina, qua grana e spicis exteruntur, or similar phr.