Trabâlis, & hoc trabâle, pen. pro. Pertaining to heames. vt Trabalis clauus. Ci. Claui trabales. Hor. A certaine instrument to torment men.Hasta trabalis.Stat.A great speare almost like a beame.Telum trabale. Vir. Trachal.The vpper part of the sishe Murex.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
trăbālis, e, adj. [trabs], of or belonging to beams, beam-. clavus, a spike, Hor. C. 1, 35, 18; cf. prov: ut hoc beneficium, quemadmodum dicitur, trabali clavo figeret, i. e.
very fast
, Cic. Verr 2, 5, 21, 53.—Poet.: telum, i. e. beam-like, stout as a beam (Enn. ap. Serv. ad Verg. A. 12, 294 (Ann. v. 589 Vahl.); imitated by Verg. l. l.; Val. Fl. 8, 301: hasta, Stat. Th. 4, 6: sceptrum, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 172: vectis, id. Cons. Mall. Theod. 318