Trulla
（
τρουλλίον).
1.
A sort of ladle or dipper, practically the same as
trua, of which this
word is a diminutive. See
Trua.
2.
（
τρύβλιον). Either used separately, or with the epithet
vinaria. A drinking-cup, or utensil employed for taking the wine out of
a larger recipient, which contained a quantity mixed with snow. It was a species of
cyathus (q. v.), being furnished with an inner case perforated as a
strainer, and fitting into the hollow bowl of the cup, so that when adjusted together the two
would form but one body, which might be conveniently dipped into the large vessel, and
filled; then, by remov
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Trulla, Fire-basket. (Rich.)
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ing the perforated case, any sediment or impurity deposited by the snow would be
removed with it from the pure liquid left in the bowl (
Verr. ii. 4, 27; Varro,
L. L. v. 118; Pliny ,
Pliny H. N.
xxxvii. 7).
3.
The pan of a night-stool (
Juv.iii. 118).
4.
A fire-basket of iron used for carrying hot coals from place to place (
Livy, xxxvii. 11).
