Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Uncus

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. 

UNCUS (ὄγκος). Literally, a bend or curve; whence applied to objects formed in that figure; especially a hook with which the executioner dragged up the corpse of a malefactor from the subterranean dungeon (carnificina) in which he was put to death, on to the Gemonian stairs, or into the Tiber. Cic. R. Perd. 5. Juv. x. 66. Ov. Ibis. 166.

2. The fluke of an anchor. Val. Flacc. ii. 428. ANCORA. DENS, 1.

3. A surgical instrument employed by accoucheurs. Cels. vii. 29.