1. Cuneus (Latin entry by Sir Thomas Elyot 1538)

   
   

   Cuneus, an axe to cutte woode, whiche is smalle and thyn before, and brode & thycke after, that the wodde may ryue the better, also a wedge to cleaue wodde with. By translation it is a company of fotem_e in batayle, that goth in a lyke order, smal before, and brode behynde:there was a lyke forme in the Theatre or place, where men beheld playes, it is sometyme taken for a company of people.

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