runcina
- a plane, Plin. 16, 42, 82, § 225; Arn. 6, 200; Tert. Apol. 12; Vulg. Isa. 44, 13.
super illum locum Ysaie xliv ‘artifex lignorius, et cetera’ dicit glossa, ‘in dialetica arte quasi ascia et terebra et lima et ~a formant deum suum’
fformowre or grubbing yryn of gravowrys , scrofina, ~a
Runcino.
Σκέπαρνον , Ascia ; σκέπαρνα , Runcinæ.de quo Esaiæ xiiii. Artifex lignarius extendit normam,
formavit illud in Runcina, etc. Miracula S. Amelbergæ Virg. tom. 3. Julii pag.
Pater ejus tanto tempore cum Runcina sua vellens avenam,
etc. Id est, cum sua falce messoria. S. Augustino lib. 4. de Civ. Dei cap. 8.
runcandispræsidebat.
Runcinatuslegitur supra in voce Incastraturæ.
Asciam 1. Runcinam 1. ubi glossa
Noil. Vide Graff. Thesaur. Ling. Franc. tom. 4. col. 1126. voce
Nua; et de etymo Murat. in Antiq. Ital. tom. 2. col. 1282. voce
Ronca.
RUNCI´NA(ῥυκάνη), a plane (Tertull. Apol. 12; Plin. Nat.16.225), is delineated among joiners' tools (Instrumen. Fabr. Tignar.) in the woodcut at p. 243. Another example of similar form, but with the wooden box also shown, may be seen in Blümner: in both these we see two holes for the passage of the shavings, one on each side of the handle, instead of one, as in modern planes. The Latin and Greek names for this instrument gave origin to the corresponding transitive verbs runcino and ῥυκανάω, meaning to plane. (Varro, L. L. 5.96; Poll. 10.146; Anth. Pal. 6.204; Blümner, Technol. 2.227.)
[J.Y] [G.E.M](ῥυκάνη). A carpenter's plane, for smoothing and levelling surfaces in wood (Pliny, H. N. xvi. 82), of which an example is afforded by a sepulchral marble at Rastadt, which is furnished with a handle, and shows the holes through which the shavings (ramenta) turned up.