Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rastellus

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. 

RASTEL'LUS. Diminutive of RASTER; especially in the sense of a wooden rake for smoothing over the ground after seed had been sown (Columell. ii. 12. 6.); or for raking up hay, straw, &c., in the hay or corn field. Varro, R. R. i. 49. 1. Id. L. L. v. 136.