Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Torcularius

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. 

TORCULA'RIUS, as an adjective, is applied generally to any one of the instruments, vessels, &c., employed in or about a wine or oil press and press-room (Varro, R. R. i. 22. Columell. i. 6.); but absolutely, the torcularii are the labourers who worked the press (Columell. xii. 52. 3.), as seen in the first illustration s. TORCULAR.