Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Ciconia

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A word meaning literally “a stork,” but also applied to a mimic gesture expressive of ridicule or contempt, produced by bending the forefinger into the form of a stork's neck, and pointing it towards the person ridiculed with a rapid motion of the two top joints up and down (Pers. i. 58, with the commentators; Hieron. Epist. 125, 18).

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A contrivance employed by farmers to test a labourer's work in spade husbandry, and prove if all his trenches were dug to a uniform and proper width and depth. It consisted of an upright, with a cross-bar affixed to it, at right angles, like the letter T invèrted, so that the long branch measured the depth, and the two shorter arms the width and evenness of the trench (Colum. iii. 13, 11).

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

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