Carriages.
Vehicula.
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We are carried on a _Sled_, 1.
over Snow and Ice.
Vehimur _Trahâ_, 1.
super Nivibus & Glacie.
A Carriage with one Wheel,
is called a _Wheelbarrow_, 2.
with two Wheels, a _Cart_, 3.
Vehiculum unirotum,
dicitur _Pabo_, 2.
birotum, _Carrus_, 3.
with four Wheels, a _Wagon_,
which is either
a _Timber-wagon_, 4.
or a _Load-wagon_, 5.
quadrirotum, _Currus_,
qui vel
_Sarracum_, 4.
vel _Plaustrum_, 5.
The parts of the Wagon are,
the _Neep_ (or draught-tree), 6.
the _Beam_, 7.
the _Bottom_, 8.
and the _Sides_, 9.
Partes Currûs sunt,
_Temo_, 6.
_Jugum_, 7.
_Compages_, 8.
_Spondæ_, 9.
Then the _Axle-trees_, 10.
about which the _Wheels_ run,
the _Lin-pins_, 11.
and _Axletree-staves_, 12.
being fastened before them.
Tum _Axes_, 10.
circa quos _Rotæ_ currunt,
_Paxillis_, 11.
& _Obicibus_, 12.
præfixis.
The _Nave_, 13. is
the groundfast of the _Wheel_, 14.
from which come
twelve _Spokes_, 15.
_Modiolus_, 13. est
Basis _Rotæ_, 14.
ex quo prodeunt
duodecim _Radii_, 15.
The _Ring_ encompasseth
these, which is made
of six _Felloes_, 16.
and as many _Strakes_, 17.
_Orbile_ ambit
hos, compositum
è sex _Absidibus_, 16.
& totidem _Canthis_, 17.
_Hampiers_ and _Hurdles_, 18,
are set in a Wagon.
_Corbes_ & _Crates_, 18.
imponuntur Currui.