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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[LL.

expeditatus

, p. p. of

expeditare

to expeditate;

out +

pes

pedis

, foot.]

(Eng. Forest Laws)

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet;

as, to

expeditate

a dog that he may not chase deer

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Verb.

[L. ex and pes, foot.] In the forest laws of England, to cut out the balls or claws of a dog's fore feet, for the preservation of the king's game.