LXXXV.

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.