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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rallum

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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. 

RAL'LUM. Contracted for radulum. A scraper in the form of a spud, which a ploughman put on to the butt end of his goad (stimulus), and used for scraping off the earth from the ploughshare. Plin. H. N. xviii. 49. § 2. The annexed example (Rallum/1.1) is copied from an Etruscan bronze, in which it is carried by a rustic engaged at the plough.

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