Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cochlear

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

COCH'LEAR and COCHLEA'RE (κοχλιάριον). A spoon with a bowl at one end, and a sharp point at the other, for eating eggs and shell-fish (Mart. Ep. xiv. 121.); the broad end serving as an egg spoon (Pet. Sat. 33. 6.), and the point for drawing the fish out of its shell. (Plin. H. N. xxviii. 4.) The example (Cochlear/1.1) represents an original found in Pompeii.

2. A measure of liquids; answering to our spoonful. Columell. xii. 21. 3.

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  Cochlear/1.1