Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fistuca

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. 

FISTU'CA. A rammer, with which walls of masonry, floorings, and pavements were levelled and consolidated (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 61. Cato, R. R. 28. 2.), as shown by the annexed example (Fistuca/1.1), from the Column of Trajan; also employed for driving piles under water (Caes. B. G. iv. 17.); but that, from the nature of the service performed, must have been a larger and more powerful instrument, and probably was worked by machinery.

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  Fistuca/1.1