Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dolabella

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DOLABEL'LA. A small dolabra, or instrument constructed upon the same principle, which was employed for agricultural purposes, especially in the vineyard, for clearing out the dead wood, and loosening the earth about the roots of the vines. (Columell. iv. 24. 4. and 5.) The example (Dolabella/1.1) is taken from a sepulchral marble (Mazzocchi de Ascia, p. 179.); its form clearly shows that it belonged to the class of dolabrae, as will be seen by comparing it with the following illustrations, while the straight cutting blade, like a hatchet or chisel at the top, and the curved one, like a pruning hook, below, make it sufficiently suitable for the uses assigned to it by Columella in the passages cited.

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  Dolabella/1.1