Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Machinarius

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. 

MACHINA'RIUS. Any one who works upon a scaffolding (Paul. Dig. 9. 2. 31.); but more frequently used as an adjective to express that which is worked by, or itself works with, machinery; as mola machinaria (Apul. Met. vii. p. 143.), a corn-mill driven by cattle (see MOLA 2.); asinus machinarius (Ulp. Dig. ii. 6. 7.), an ass which works a mill.