linter

linter, tris (nom. lintris, Sid. Carm. 5, 283), f. (m., Tib. 2, 5, 34) [old form lunter for plun-ter; root plunô, to wash; cf. pluvia; hence]

I.

Lit., a wash-tub; or in gen., a trough, vat, tray, tub, for wine, Cato, R. R. 11, 5; cf. Tib. 1, 5, 23:

cavat arbore lintres,

Verg. G. 1, 262.—

II.

Transf., a boat, skiff, wherry:

lintribus materiam in insulam convehere,

Cic. Mil. 27, 74; Caes. B. G. 1, 12:

novas (sc. lintres), cavare,

Liv. 21, 26.—Prov.: loqui e lintre, said of one who sways his body to and fro when speaking, Julius ap. Cic. Brut. 60, 216:

reprehendenda et illa frequens et concitata in utramque partem nutatio, quam in Curione patre inrisit et Julius, quaerens, quis in luntre loqueretur,

Quint. 11, 3, 129:

naviget hinc aliā jam mihi linter aquā,

i. e. let me now turn to something else, Ov. F. 2, 864:

in liquida nat tibi linter aquā,

you have a favorable opportunity, Tib. 1, 7, 37 (1, 5, 76).