torulus

Now Amphitryon will return from the army to-day, and the slave I am representing, too. nunc internosse ut nos possitis facilius, ego has habebo usque in petaso pinnulas; tum meo patri autem torulus inerit aureus sub petaso: id signum Amphitruoni non erit. ea signa nemo horum familiarium videre poterit: verum vos videbitis.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

The _torulus_ (as Vitruvius terms it) and heart of deal, kept dry, rejecting the _albumen_ and white, is everlasting; nor does there any wood so well agree with the glew, as it, or is so easie to be wrought:

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663