Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Chamulchus

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

CHAMUL'CHUS (χαμουλκός). A sort of dray employed in the transport of very weighty substances, such as large blocks of marble, columns, obelisks, &c., which lay low upon the ground (whence the name, from χαμαὶ the ground, and ἕλκω, to draw), and probably resembled those now used for similar purposes. Ammian. xvii. 4. 14.