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Regŭla

κανών). A ruler for drawing straight lines on plane surfaces; as the perpendiculum (στάθμη) was used for a vertical direction (Vitruv. vii. 3, 5). The name regula is also applied to the thread of the screw (Blümner, Technologie, iv. 124).

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