Falx, huius falcis, f. g. Plin. An hooke, bill, or sieth. An engine of warre crooked like an hooke.Falces fœnariæ, stramentariæ. Cato. Siethes to mowe with.Falces arborariæ, syluaticæ, vineaticæ. Cato. An hooke or hedging bill: A hooke to dresse vines.Frondatorum falx. Catul. An hedging bill.Acutæfalx.Ouid. Adunca. Ouid.Agrestis.Iuuen. Ahena. Virg.Falces curuæ.Virg. Mala falx. Virg.Nigræ rubigine falces. Claud. Blacke with rust.Procurua falx.Virg. Rapaces falces. Lucr. Supina falx. Iuuenal. A dhibere frondibus falcem. Quint. Amputare ramos falce. Horat. To cut off braunches with an hooke.Curare vitem falce. Plin. To dresse and cutte a vine.Vmbram arboris attenuat falx. Catul. The hooke cutteth away the thicke boughes that made the shadowe.Falces laqueis auertere. Cæsar. Æstiua detondent Gargara falces. Claud. The siethes cutte downe in Gargara.Vites incidere falce.Virg.Premere vitem falce. Hor. Seges resecanda falce.Ouid.Supponere falcem aristis, Virg.To reape corne. Falx. Cæsar. A cramperne, or hooke vsed in warre.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
falx, falcis, f. [perh. akin to flecto], a sickle, reaping-hook, a pruning-hook, scythe.I. Prop., Cato, R. R. 10, 3; 11, 4; Varr. R. R. 1, 22, 5; Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; id. Mil. 33, 91; Verg. G. 1, 348: Ov. F. 4, 914; Hor. C. 1, 31, 9 et saep.—II.Transf., a military implement shaped like a sickle, used in sieges to pull down walls or the enemies stationed on the walls; a hook: falces praeacutae insertae affixaeque longuriis: non absimili formā muralium falcium, Caes. B. G. 3, 14, 5; 5, 42fin.; 7, 22; Sisenn. ap. Non. 556, 22; Curt. 4, 3, 8; Tac. H. 3, 27; Stat. Ach. 2, 419.—Of the scythes with which chariots were armed, Curt. 4, 15, 2.