doloire

Borrowed from French doloire.

doloire (plural doloires)

1. A medieval war and utility axe with a long wooden haft of 1.5 metres in length set with a blade shaped as a tear drop.

• wagoner's axe

• doleiro

From Old French doleoire, from inherited from Vulgar Latin *dolatōria, from Late Latin dolatorium, from Latin dolō (“to hew”).

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doloire f (plural doloires)

1. plane (type of tool)
2. doloire (axelike weapon)

• → English: doloire

• “doloire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.