Lewis Short
(verb) : dĕ-ascĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, 1, ascio
* To hew or cut with an axe, to smoothe.
* Lit. (late Lat.): deasciato stipiti, wrought, smoothed, Prud. στεφ. 10, 381.
* To rub out, efface: hunc titulum, Murat. Inscr. 1203, 9.
* Trop.: aliquem, to cheat, to chouse (cf. abrado), Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 11.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary