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dolabra
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dolabranoun
An ancient axe or hatchet.
Etymology: from dolare to hew.
Wikipedia
Dolabra
The dolabra is a versatile axe used by the people of Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool (mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics. In the 1st century CE, at the battle of Augustodunum, armoured Gallic gladiators were defeated by legionaries wielding dolabrae.Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe".
Webster Dictionary
Dolabranoun
a rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums
Etymology: [L., fr. dolare to hew.]
Wikidata
Dolabra
The dolabra is a versatile tool used by the people in Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool used in Roman infantry tactics.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Dolabra
dō-lā′bra, n. an ancient Roman cutting or digging implement, of various shapes.—adj. Dolab′riform, like a hatchet or cleaver, used of leaves, also of shells straight and thick at one side, and thin at the other. [L. dolabra, a cleaver.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
dolabra
A rude ancient hatchet. They are represented on the columns of Trajan and Antoninus, and abound in all museums. When made of flint, which was their earliest and rudest form, they are usually called celts.
Mythology
Dolabra
(Dola′bra). The knife used by the priests to cut up the sacrifices.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of dolabra in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of dolabra in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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