dentāle

I. plural class.; sing. post-class.), n. dens, no. I. B., the share-beam, to which the vomer or ploughshare was attached.

I. Prop., plur., Verg. G. 1, 172; Col. 2, 2, 24.—Sing.: genus vomerum toto porrectum dentali, Plin. 18, 18, 48, § 171.—*

II. Meton.: sulco terens dentalia, a ploughshare, Pers. 1, 73.