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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tornus

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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. 

TORNUS (τόρνος). A lathe, or turner's wheel (Virg. Georg. ii. 449. Plin. H. N. vii. 57.); also, a sharp-pointed carving or graving-tool, turned by a lathe. Virg. Ecl. iii. 38.

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