falcastrum

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

falcastrum, i, n. [falx],

an agricultural instrument , a bush-hook : a similitudine falcis vocatum. Est autem ferramentum curvum cum manubrio longo ad densitatem veprium succidendam, Isid. Orig. 20, 14, 5.