The corpus record

χνόη

chnoe

axle-box, nave

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 2 · 3.97/10k
Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k

What it meant — LSJ

axle-box, nave

axle-box, nave, ἄξων ἐν χνοίῃσιν Parm. 1.6; prob. in Emp. 46; ἔλακον ἀξόνων βριθομένων χνόαι A. Th. 153 (lyr); ἔθραυσε δʼ ἄξονος μέσας χνόας S. El. 745, cf. 717; ἀντύγων χνόας E. Rh. 118.

2 the joints

metaph., χνόαι ποδῶν the joints on which the feet play, as the wheels on the axle, A. Th. 371.

In the wild

χνόαι · chnoai Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 152
χνόας · chnoas Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 369–371
χνόας · chnoas Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 76)
χνόας · chnoas Sophocles, Electra 715–717
χνόας · chnoas Sophocles, Electra 745

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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