Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Hastile

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. 

HASTI'LE. Properly the shaft of a spear (Nepos, Epam. xv. 9.); thence used for the spear itself (Ov. Met. viii. 28.); a goad for driving cattle (Calpurn. Ecl. iii. 21.); or any long stick. Virg. Georg. ii. 358.