con-trunco, āvi, ātum, 1,
v. a., to cut down or to pieces (ante- and post-class. and very rare): filios, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 51; cf.: inermes et obsistentes, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 61.—Facete: cibum, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 48: offulam grandiorem, Ap. Met. 1, 4, 3; moles palearum, id. ib. 9, 13, 4.