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

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A Roman liquid measure containing one fourth of the cyathus (q. v.). The word is also used generically, like our “spoonful,” of a small quantity.

A spoon larger than the cochlear (q. v.), and like our dessert-spoon.

The leather tongue of a shoe, also written Lingŭla (Poll.ii. 109).

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)