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

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Runcīna

（ῥυκάνη). A carpenter's plane, for smoothing and levelling surfaces in wood (Pliny ,

Runcina. (Rich.)

H. N. xvi. 82), of which an example is afforded by a sepulchral marble at Rastadt, which is furnished with a handle, and shows the holes through which the shavings (ramenta) turned up.

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

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