The corpus record — Latin

mĕtella

mĕtella · adj

a basket filled with stones, which the besieged threw down on the heads of the besiegers

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What it meant

mĕtella — Lewis & Short

mĕtella, ae, f. (prob. adj., sc. machina),

I a basket filled with stones, which the besieged threw down on the heads of the besiegers (post-class.): ut de ligno crates facerent, quas metellas vocaverunt, lapidibusque complerent, etc. (al. metilas, medullas, metulas), Veg. Mil. 4, 6.

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