The corpus record

χην-ίσκος

cheniskos · ὁ

top of a shipʼs stern post in the form of a gooseʼs head and neck

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What it meant — LSJ

Dim. of χήν, Eub. 15.3.

II top of a shipʼs stern post in the form of a gooseʼs head and neck

top of a shipʼs stern post in the form of a gooseʼs head and neck, Ptol. Alm. 8.1, Luc. VH 2.41, Nav. 5, JTr. 47, Artem. 2.23, Eust. 667.16.

ornament on a bowl, Inscr.Délos 372B 72 (iii/ii B. C.); part of a machine, Orib. 49.4.28.

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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