The corpus record

αἰχμάζω

aichmazo

throw the spear

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Where it lives

Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

αἰχμάζω · aichmazō — LSJ

throw the spear, play the warrior, to perform, feats of arms, ‘trail a pike’

throw the spear, αἰχμὰς αἰχμάσσουσι Il. 4.324; ἔνδον αἰχμάζειν play the warrior at home, A. Pers. 756; αἰχμάσαι τάδε to perform these feats of arms, S. Tr. 355; ‘trail a pike’, Men. Sam. 284.

II arm with the spear

arm with the spear, πρὸς Ἀτρείδαισιν ᾔχμασας χέρα S. Aj. 97: metaph. of generalʼs speech, ἀ. τὴν διάνοιαν Onos. 1.13.

III wound

wound, Nonn. D. 35.178 s.v.l.

In the wild

αἰχμάζειν · aichmazein Aeschylus, Persians 754–756
αἰχμάζεις · aichmazeis Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 256)
αἰχμάσσουσι · aichmassousi Iliad 4.324
ᾔχμασας · ēichmasas Sophocles, Ajax 97
αἰχμάσαι · aichmasai Sophocles, Trachiniae 351–357

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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