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

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(contracted from radulum). A scraper in the form of a spud, which a ploughman fixed

Radulum. (Rich.)

on the butt end of his goad (stimulus), and used for scraping off the earth from the ploughshare (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xviii. 49Pliny H. N., 2).

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

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