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,App. M. 6, p. 178: ossa fracta fabrili manu,Mart. 11, 84.—Jocosely: senem Exossabo dein dedolabo assulatim viscera,Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 106.—Hence, in familiar lang., to cudgel soundly: fustium quoque crebris ictibus dedolabar,App. M. 7, p. 195; and in an obscene sense,id. ib. 9, p. 220, 30.

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