The corpus record

μασχαλ-ιστήρ

maschalister · ὁ

girth passing round the horse behind his shoulders

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

μασχαλ-ιστήρ · maschal-istēr — LSJ

girth passing round the horse behind his shoulders

girth passing round the horse behind his shoulders and fastened to the yoke by the λέπαδνον, Poll. 1.147, Hsch.

II girth, band

generally, girth, band, A. Pr. 71, Hdt. 1.215; μ. ἔνλιθος CPR 22.5 (ii A.D.).

III second dorsal vertebra

second dorsal vertebra, Poll. 2.178.

In the wild

μασχαλιστῆρας · maschalistēras Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 71
μασχαλιστῆρας · maschalistēras Herodotus, Histories 1.215.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1535)

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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