affrango

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

af-frango (better adf-), ĕre (or adfringo, ĕre), v. a.,

to strike upon or against something, to break against , break in pieces (very rare, perh. only in Statius): duris adfrangunt postibus ungues, Stat. Th. 10, 47: plenis parvos uberibus, id. ib. 5, 150: hiemes bustis, id. S. 5, 1, 36.