I.the earth thrown up between two furrows, a ridge: “liras rustici vocant easdem porcas, cum sic aratum est, ut inter duos latius distantes sulcos medius cumulus siccam sedem frumentis praebeat,” Col. 2, 4, 8: “patentes liras facere,” id. 2, 8, 3: “proscissa lira,” id. 2, 10; cf. id. 11, 3.—
II. Transf., a furrow, acc. to Non. 17, 32; cf. lira, αὖλαξ, Gloss. Philox.