tŭdes

is, m.

root tud, tundo; Sanscr. tud-, to thrust

I. a hammer, mallet: tudites malleos appellant antiqui a tundendo, Fest. p. 352 sq. Müll.: fabriles operae tudibus contundere massas Festinant, Auct. Aetnae, 659.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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