lura

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

lūra (lōra), ae, f. [from same root as lorum, q. v.], prop.

I a thong; hence, the mouth of a skin or leathern bag , which was closed by a thong: lura os cullei vel etiam utris: unde lurcones capacis gulae homines et bonorum suorum consumptores, Paul. ex Fest. p. 120.—

II Transf., a skin, leathern sack , Aus. Perioch. Odyss. 10 (In Lucil. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 21, 48, Fischer conjectures furi, v. h. l.).