Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Scutale

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. 

SCUTA'LE. Either the purse of a sling (funda) in which the missile is placed, or the thong by which it is projected; but opinions differ respecting which is the proper interpretation, as the term only occurs in a solitary passage of Livy (xxxviii. 29.).