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dedolo

dē-dŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1,
  • v. a., to hew away, to hew smooth, to hew: partes putres pedamentorum, Col. 4, 26, 1: ridicas, id. 11, 2, 12: arborem, Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 188: vasculum crystallo dedolatum, smoothed, inlaid, Ap. Met. 6, 13, 18; ossa fracta fabrili manu, Mart. 11, 84.—Jocosely: senem Exossabo dein dedolabo assulatim viscera, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 106 (858).—Hence, in familiar lang., to cudgel soundly: fustium quoque crebris ictibus dedolabar, Ap. Met. 7, 17, 10; and in an obscene sense, id. ib. 9, 7, 16.

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