Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Trua

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. 

TRUA (τρυήλα, τορύνη). A large flat ladle employed for skimming the surface of liquids, for stirring and moving vegetables or meats when boiling (Titin. ap. Non. s. v. p. 19. Festus, s. Antroare), or for removing them from the pot, without taking up the water at the same time. With this object, it was perforated by a number of small holes at the bottom, as represented by the annexed example (Trua/1.1), from an original of bronze found at Pompeii; and this property, as well as the manner of using it, accounts fully for the Greek names it received, and with which the Latin one is connected, τρύω, to rub or stir, and τορέω, to bore; one or the other of which notions are found to pervade, and to convey a characteristic meaning to the other special senses of the word trua, as well as its diminutive trulla.

2. A perforated cap or plate covering the mouth of a sink in the kitchen, &c., in order to prevent the refuse from choking the pipe, while it permits the liquid to drain through it. Varro, L. L. v. 118.

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