ropes for letting down
ropes for letting down a portcullis, opp. ἀνασπαστήρια, App. BC 4.78: cf. σχαστήρια.
The corpus record
χαλ-αστήρια
chalasteria · τά
ropes for letting down
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What it meant — LSJ
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.