Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Chamulchus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

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.