vallus

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1 VEL-.—In fortification, a stake, palisade : qui labor et quantus agminis . . . ferre vallum, etc.: vallum caedere et parare, L.: se acutissimis vallis induebant; hos cippos appellabant, Cs.— A rampart with palisades : duplicem fecerat vallum, Cs.— A point, spike, tooth : pectinis, O.—In agriculture, a stake, pole : Exacuunt alii vallos, V.