Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rutellum

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. 

RUTEL'LUM (ὁμαλιστήρ). Diminutive of RUTRUM. A strickle, or small shovel employed by corn meters for filling the measure and levelling the surface, in order to strike the exact quantity. Luc. Sat. ix. 18. ed. Gerlach.