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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. 

TRITU'RA (ἀλόησις). The act of threshing out corn, which was done in three several ways; by beating out the grain with a rod or a flail (pertica, fustis); rubbing it out with a machine drawn over it by cattle (tribulum, and wood-cut s. v.); or by treading it out with oxen or horses driven round the threshing-floor in the manner exhibited by the annexed engraving (Tritura/1.1) from an Egyptian painting, which is still customary in many parts of Italy and the East. Varro, L. L. v. 21. Id. R. R. i. 52. 2. Columell. ii. 20. 4. Id. i. 6. 23.

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