Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Runcina

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. 

RUNCI'NA (ῥυκάνη). A carpenter's plane, for smoothing and levelling surfaces in wood (Plin. H. N. xvi. 82.), of which an example (Runcina/1.1) is afforded from a sepulchral marble at Rastadt, which is furnished with a handle, and shows the holes through which the shavings (ramenta) turned up. The same name was also given to the rebate plane, employed by cabinet-makers, joiners, and carvers in wood, for making grooves or channels between the folds of drapery, &c. Tertull. Apol. 12. Augustin. C. D. iv. 8.

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  Runcina/1.1