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1 VEL-.—In fortification, a stake, palisade: qui labor et quantus agminis . . . ferre vallum, etc.: vallum caedere et parare, L.: se acutissimis vallis induebant; hos cippos appellabant, Cs.—A rampart with palisades: duplicem fecerat vallum, Cs.—A point, spike, tooth: pectinis, O.—In agriculture, a stake, pole: Exacuunt alii vallos, V.