rāmenta — Lewis & Short
rāmenta, ōrum, n.; less freq. in rāmentum, i, n. (collat. form rāmen-ta, ae, f.,
sing., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 4, 15; 3, 4, 23; id. Rud. 4, 3, 77) [rado].I Lit., what is grated, shaved, or rubbed off; scrapings, shavings, chips, etc. (larger than scobes), Col. 4, 29, 16; id. Arb. 8, 4:
uvas scobe ramentisve abietis, populi, fraxini servare,Plin. 15, 17, 18, § 67:
ferri,scales struck off by the hammer, Lucr. 6, 1044:
auri,Plin. 33, 3, 19, § 62:
ligni,id. 24, 2, 2, § 6; 24, 5, 10, § 16:
lapidis specularis,id. 36, 22, 45, § 162:
ramento e cornibus,id. 21, 2, 3, § 5:
ramenta fluminum,what rivers throw up on their banks, grains of sand, id. 33, 4, 21, § 66:
sulphuratum,a sulphur-match, Mart. 10, 3.— *
II Transf., bits, morsels, small pieces, in gen.:
patri omne (aurum) cum ramento reddidi,each and every, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 29.