căpistro (āvi), ātum, 1, v. a. [capistrum].
I To halter , tie with a halter : jumenta, Col. 6, 19, 2; Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 177; Ov. H. 2, 80; Sid, Carm. 22, 23.—*
II Transf., of the vine, to bind fast , to fasten , Col. 11, 2, 95.