Dedolo, dédolas, pen. cor. dedolâre. Colum. Plin. To cutte or hewe with an axe or other instrument: to chippe: to square.Dedolata tabula.A boorde squared. Plautus. Hunc dolum dedolaui. Dedolare senem, per metaphoram dixit. Plautus.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
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.