Plaustrum, plaustri, neut. gen. Cic.A carte: a waine: a chariote.Vnde hospita plaustris. Virgil. A riuer frozen and bearing cartes on it.Grauia plaustra.Virg.Stridula plaustra. Guid. Lcuia. Claud. Tardum plaustrum. Sen. Robusta. Horat. Voluentia. Virg. Decedunt domum plaustra.Virg.Trementi plaustro fertur præda. Sen. Impellere plaustrum in terram, Vide IMPELLO.Stridentia plaustra ceruice trahunt boues.Virg.Gementibus plaustris vectare ornos.Virg.To carrie so heaute loads of wild ash trees that the waines creak withal.Vehere plaustris. Quint. Plaustrum, pro sydere cœlesti. Sen. Tharles waine: night the north pole.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
plaustrum (plostrum, Cato, R. R. 2, 10; 62; Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 3; cf. Suet. Vesp. 22: plaustra, ae, f., v. infra), i, n. [Sanscr. plavas, ship; prop., that which sways hither and thither; root plu-; Gr. ple/w, plu/nw], a vehicle for carrying heavy loads, a wagon, wain, cart.I.Lit. (class.): vendat plostrum vetus, Cato, R. R. 2, 7; Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 31: in plaustrum conici, Cic. Div. 1, 27, 57: stridentia plaustra, Ov. Tr. 3, 10, 59; id. M. 2, 177: sicut stridet plaustrum onustum foeno, Vulg. Amos, 2, 13: tecta, id. Num. 7, 3.—Prov.: plaustrum perculi,
I have upset! I am done for!
Plaut. Ep. 4, 2, 22.—II.Transf., the constellation Charles's Wain, the Great Bear (poet.): flexerat obliquo plaustrum temone Bootes, Ov. M. 10, 447; id. P. 4, 10, 39; Amm. 15, 10, 2 (called plaustra Parrhasis, Sid. Carm. 5, 282 sq.).