Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Securicula

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. 

SECURIC'ULA (πελεκύδιον). Diminutive of SECURIS; a little axe, for a child's toy. Plaut. Rud. iv. 4. 114. and woodcut s. CREPUNDIA.

2. (πελεκῖνος). A mortise or dove-tail in carpentry, produced by a recessed cutting in the shape of a hatchet head, which receives the tenon or projecting end of a corresponding form, left on another piece of timber, so as to bind the two together at a given angle. Vitruv. x. 11. 8. Id. iv. 7. 4.