dŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1 (access. form of the part. pass. dolītus, Varr. ap. Non. 99, 17, and 436, 15), v. a. [cf. Sanscr. dar-, dal-, to tear apart; whence doleo; Lat. dolium], to chip with an axe, to hew.
I Lit.: materiem, Cato R. R. 31 fin. : taleas, Cat. 45: robur, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86: scyphum caelo, Varr. ap. Non. 99, 18: perticas in quadrum, Col. 8, 3, 7: stipes falce dolatus, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 59: dolato confisus ligno, Juv. 12, 57; cf.: non est e robore dolatus, Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 31, 100: de lapidibus dolatis, Vulg. 3 Reg. 6, 7.—
B Transf.: fuste, i. e. to cudgel soundly , belabor , drub , Hor. S. 1, 5, 23.—In mal. part.: uxorem, Pompon. ap. Non. 166, 1. Cf. dedolo.—
II Trop., to shape , construct : (historiam) sicut potuit, dolavit, Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 54.—And in an alliteration: hodie hunc dolum dolamus, i. e. to fashion , contrive , devise , Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 64.