Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Furcula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FUR'CULA. Diminutive of FURCA; but applied to objects of considerable size; as a wooden prop, made use of to support the walls of a town which were mined underneath. Liv. xxxviii. 7.