Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Haustrum

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. 

HAUSTRUM. A scoop, box, or bucket on a water-wheel which takes up the water as the wheel revolves. (Lucret. v. 517. Non. s. v. p. 13.) These were sometimes wooden boxes (modioli, Vitruv. x. 5.); at others only jars (cadi, Non. l. c.); and the Chinese of the present day make use of a joint of bamboo for the purpose; see the illustration s. ROTA AQUARIA, which affords a clear notion of what is meant by the term.