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Dado

//ˈdeɪdəʊ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The section of a pedestal above the base.
  2. 2
    a rectangular groove cut into a board so that another piece can fit into it wordnet
  3. 3
    The lower portion of an interior wall decorated differently from the upper portion.

    "Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all."

  4. 4
    the section of a pedestal between the base and the surbase wordnet
  5. 5
    The rectangular channel in a board cut across the grain.
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  1. 6
    panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To furnish with a dado. transitive
  2. 2
    cut a dado into or fit into a dado wordnet
  3. 3
    To cut a dado. transitive
  4. 4
    provide with a dado wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

Etymology 2

From Italian dado, first attested in 1664.

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