Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Vehiculum
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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.
VEHIC'ULUM. A vehicle; as a general term, for any sort of contrivance by which things are transported by land (Suet. Aug. 49. Cic. Pis. 25.) or by water (Id. Att. x. 10.); but here the reading is doubtful.
2. Vehiculum manibus actum. A go-cart, or invalid's chair, drawn on or pushed forward by the hands of a slave. (Aurel. Med. i. 5. ii. 1.) Also termed CHIRAMAXIUM.
3. A threshing-truck used in Gaul. Pallad. vi. 2. 2. See VALLUM, 3., where the machine is described.