Anybody know what a rutabulum is?

[annew]

Anybody know what a rutabulum is? There is a suggestion it might be an old scottish implement for raking the ashes out of a fire. Do you know what one looks like?

[Maggi Young]

Not a Scots word that I know, anne

rutabulum
  Noun  
rod with flat end; (for shifting coal in oven); (stirring thick liquid)

rutrum
  Noun
shovel

and this is helpful: http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/1003.html ... where it suggests the two words are interchangeable for a type of ''hoe' for hot ashes.


 In another source rutalulum is also listed as meaning penis.... which "marries" with another  telling us it means poker !

[Neil]

Its latin

A picture of one being used for stirring  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28299/28299-h/images/page68.png number 21 is Rutablum from http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28299/28299-h/28299-h.htm

[annew]

Thank you!