Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Roman antiquity, a cutting or digging implement of various shapes, used, according to shape and purpose, as a hatchet, an ax, a knife, a chisel, a mattock, or a pickax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.
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- noun An
ancient axe orhatchet .
Etymologies
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Examples
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[777] Anticyrae caelo huic est opus aut dolabra, he had need to be bored, and so had all his fellows, as wise as they would seem to be.
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And SENECA, whilst he quotes Theophrastus, adds ironically, that now we must go to fish with a _hatchet_ instead of a hook; "non cum hamis, sed cum dolabra ire piscatum."
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836
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And SENECA, whilst he quotes Theophrastus, adds ironically, that now we must go to fish with a _hatchet_ instead of a hook; "non cum hamis, sed cum dolabra ire piscatum." [
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
hernesheir commented on the word dolabra
Cf. dolabrate, dolabriform - "shaped like hatchet".
December 8, 2011