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Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Traha

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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. 

TRAHA, or TRAHEA. A drag without wheels, employed by the ancients in threshing; for which purpose it was sometimes drawn behind the tribula, to complete what had been left imperfectly threshed. (Columell. ii. 21. 4. Virg. Georg. 1. 164.) The example (Traha/1.1) is from an Egyptian tomb.

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