Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ora
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.
ORA. A hawser, or cable by which a vessel is made fast to the shore, and which was thrown out from the stern, whilst the anchor and its cable (ancorale) kept the head seawards. Liv. xxii. 19. Quint. iv. 2. 41.