Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Didos"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dido \Di"do\, n.; pl. {Didos}.
A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.
{To cut a dido}, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps
so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so
much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it
into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a
citadel.
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