The corpus record

κάχληξ

kachlex · ὁ

pebble, caementum, gravel, shingle

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Where it lives

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What it meant — LSJ

pebble, caementum, gravel, shingle, glarea

pebble in the beds of rivers, etc., Str. 4.1.7 (pl.), Gal. 12.292, Sch. Theoc. 6.12 (pl.); = caementum, Gloss.: collectively, gravel, shingle, Th. 4.26, J. AJ 5.1.3: also κόχλαξ, = glarea, Gloss. (Onomatopoeic word, cf. καχλάζω.)

In the wild

κάχληκα · kachlēka Thucydides, History 4.26.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2701)

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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