What is "dolabra"

Dolabra \Do*la"bra\, n. [L., fr. dolare to hew.] A rude ancient ax or hatchet, seen in museums.

n. An ancient axe or hatchet.

The dolabra is a versatile axe used by the people in Italy since ancient times. The dolabra could serve as a pickaxe used by miners and excavators, a priest's implement for ritual religious slaughtering of animals and as an entrenching tool ( mattock) used in Roman infantry tactics.

Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe."

Dolabra is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown ( incertae sedis). A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Dolabra nepheliae.