Note 353 — BOOK XVIII. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GRAIN. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
According to Goropius Becanus, from plograt, the ancient Gallic for a plough-wheel. Hardouin thinks that it is from the Latin “plaustra rati;” and Poinsinet derives it from the Belgic ploum, a plough, and rat, or radt, a wheel.