trăbālis, e, adj. [trabs],
of or belonging to beams , beam-. clavus, a spike , Hor. C. 1, 35, 18; cf. prov: ut hoc beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo figeret, i. e. very fast , Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 21, § 53.—Poet.: telum, i. e. beam-like , stout as a beam (Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 294 (Ann. v. 589 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. l. l.; Val. Fl. 8, 301: hasta, Stat. Th. 4, 6: sceptrum, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 172: vectis, id. Cons. Mall. Theod. 318