Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cochlear

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. 

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