virgidemia

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

virgĭdēmĭa, ae, f. [formed from virga, after the analogy of vindemia],

a harvest of rods , i. e. of stripes or blows , Plaut. Rud. 3, 2, 22; Varr. ap. Non. p. 187, 13.