Strues, struis, f. g. Liu.A pile of woode: A cake.Strues salinarum.Cic.A great heape of salt.Strues vuarum. Plin. An heape of, &c.Struppi.Little wreathes made of leaues, put on the heades of Images in temples.Strutheus.The priuie member of a man.Struthopedes.They that haue little rounde feete.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
strŭes, is, f. [id.], a heap, pile of things put together. I. In gen. (class.; syn.: acervus, cumulus, congeries): laterum, Cic. Att. 5, 12, 3: corporum, Liv. 23, 5; Tac. H. 2, 70; 3, 83: lignorum, Liv. 21, 37; Plin. 16, 11, 22, 53: arma cum telis in strue mixta, Ov. P. 2, 1, 40: rogi,
a funeral pile
,
pyre
, Tac. G. 27; Luc. 8, 757; Sen. Phoen. 112; id. Oedip. 33: uvarum, Plin. 14, 4, 5, 51 et saep.: (milites Macedones) confusa strue implicantur,
a heap
,
mass
,
phalanx
, Liv. 44, 41, 7.—Collect., with a verb in the plur.: LOCVS QVO EA STRVES CONGERANTVR, i. e. piles of wood, Cenot. Pis. I. (in Inscr. Orell. 642).—II. In partic., in relig. lang., a heap of little offering-cakes: strues genera liborum sunt, digitorum conjunctorum non dissimilia, qui superjecta panicula in transversum continentur, Fest. p. 310 Müll.; cf. id. s. v. ferctum, p. 85; cf. Cato, R. R. 134, 2; 141, 4; Ov. F. 1, 276; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. p. 403.