cleaver, knife, dagger, shears, scissors
cleaver, Ar. Eq. 412; knife, μικρὰ μ. Plu. Art. 19, cf. Luc. Ind. 29; dagger, Str. 16.4.17; pl., shears, scissors, ὁ κουρεὺς τὰς μ. λαβών Eup. 278, cf. Poll. 10.140.
The corpus record
μαχαιρ-ίς
machairis · ἡ
cleaver, knife, dagger
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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.