I. Lit., a wash-tub; or in gen., a trough, vat, tray, tub, for wine, Cato, R. R. 11, 5; cf. Tib. 1, 5, 23: “cavat arbore lintres,” Verg. G. 1, 262.—
II. Transf., a boat, skiff, wherry: “lintribus materiam in insulam convehere,” Cic. Mil. 27, 74; Caes. B. G. 1, 12: “novas (sc. lintres), cavare,” Liv. 21, 26.—Prov.: loqui e lintre, said of one who sways his body to and fro when speaking, Julius ap. Cic. Brut. 60, 216: “reprehendenda et illa frequens et concitata in utramque partem nutatio, quam in Curione patre inrisit et Julius, quaerens, quis in luntre loqueretur,” Quint. 11, 3, 129: “naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā,” i. e. let me now turn to something else, Ov. F. 2, 864: “in liquida nat tibi linter aquā,” you have a favorable opportunity, Tib. 1, 7, 37 (1, 5, 76).
