Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), P, Plemmyrium, Plostellum Poenĭcum

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Plostellum Poenĭcum

or Punĭcum. A threshing-machine used by the Romans, consisting of several rollers fitted with iron spikes, which as they turned around threshed out the grain (Varro, R. R. i. 51). The same sort of contrivance is used by the modern Egyptians.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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