Scamnum, scamm. Ouid.A step or griece to go vp to a bed. Scamnum. Pli. A balke vntilled betweene two furrowes. Scamnum.Ouid.A bench or forme.Scamua etiam in arboribus. Pli. Boughes of trees wherby the vine climeth. Scamnum, per translationem.A shelfe in the sea. Scamnum regni. Ci.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
scamnum, i, n. [for scap-num; root skap-; Gr. skh/ptw, to support; cf.: scabellum, scapus, scipio], a bench, stool, step, etc. I. In gen.: quă simplici scansione scandebant in lectum non altum, scabellum; in altiorem, scamnum, Varr. L. L. 5, 168 Müll.; Ov. A. A. 2, 211; 1, 162: longis considere scamnis, id. F. 6, 305; Cels. 2, 15: sedere in scamnis equitum, Mart. 5, 41, 7.— Of horizontal branches of trees serving as seats, Plin. 12, 1, 5, 10: ramorum, id. 17, 23, 35, 201.—Poet., a throne: regni stabilita scamna solumque, Enn. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48 fin. (Ann. v. 99 Vahl.).—II. In partic. A. In agriculture, a bank or ridge of earth left in ploughing, a balk (cf.: lira, porca), Col. 2, 2, 25; 2, 4, 3; 3, 13, 10; id. Arb. 12, 2; Plin. 18, 19, 49, 179.—B. In the agrimensores, the breadth of a field (opp. striga, the length), Auct. Rei Agr. p. 46; 125; 198 Goes.