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fractaria

fractaria · f

a machine for crushing flint-stones

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What it meant

fractārĭa — Lewis & Short

fractārĭa, ae, f. (sc. machina) [frango],

I a machine for crushing flint-stones: caedunt (silices) fractariis CL libras ferri habentibus, Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 71; v. Sillig. ad h. l.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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