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Forms: tribolo (data provider: created dynamically cause no lemma is available)
Dictionary
Baretti: A dictionary of the English and Italian languages
Tríbolo, s. m.
1. a bramble, briar, thistle; 2. melicot, macle; 3. (mil. t.) caltrop; 4. (fig.)Tribulation, affliction, cross, trouble. Seminar triboli, to sow discord; 5. pl. tears shed at funerals.
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tribolo: at this day in the kingdome of Naples certaine poore women are said to keepe or Fáre il tríbolo, which hired for mony, ouer the dead corpes of any man weepe, waile, lament, wring their hands, scratch their faces, teare their haires, recount his vertues, and declare the great losse of such a man. Also a kinde of weapon like a flaile. Also caltrops vsed in warre to prick horses feet. They are so made with foure prickes, that which way socuer they be cast, one pricke stands euer vp. Also the caltrop thistle, or rough teazle, vsed also for a bramble, a brier, or thorne.