Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fusterna

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. 

FUSTER'NA. The upper portion of a fir pole, which is thick set with branches, as contradistinguished from the lower part (sapinus), which is free from knots. Plin. H. N. xv. 76. § 1.