The corpus record

ἀχῠρόω

achuroo

mix chaff, straw, mixed with chaff

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What it meant — LSJ

mix chaff, straw, mixed with chaff, to be strewn with straw

mix chaff or straw with mud, Thphr. HP 4.8.8:— Pass., μᾶζαν ἠχυρωμένην mixed with chaff, Polioch. 2; in building walls, πηλὸς ἠχ. IG 2(2).463.68; ἠχ. ἀμόργῳ Ph. Bel. 86.44; to be strewn with straw, of the orchestra, Arist. Pr. 901b30.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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