The corpus record

ὁλκ-άς

olkas · ἡ

ship which is towed

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Where it lives

Against Diogeiton 1 · 5.91/10k
Laches 3 · 3.91/10k
Trapeziticus 1 · 3/10k
Ways and Means 1 · 2.62/10k
History 33 · 2.21/10k
Oeconomica II 1 · 2.13/10k
Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
Peace 1 · 1.26/10k
Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Histories 6 · 0.33/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

ὁλκ-άς · holk-as — LSJ

ship which is towed, trading vessel, merchantman

ship which is towed : hence, trading vessel, merchantman, Pi. N. 5.2, Hdt. 3.135, 7.25, 137, Lys. 32.25 ; ἐν ὁλκάσιν ἢ πλοίοις Th. 7.7, cf. X. Ath. 1.20 ; ὁ. σιταγωγοί Th. 6.44 ; οἰναγωγοί Pherecr. 143.5, cf. Cephisod. 10 : metaph., of women, AP 5.160 ; of Europaʼs bull, Nonn. D. 1.66.

2 conveyed

of stones, conveyed to the place of building, IG ΙΙ(2).199A 79 (Delos, iii B. C.).

ὁλκάς· . . παρʼ Ἀλκμᾶνι ἀειδῶν (i. e. ἀηδών, cf. Hsch. s.v. ὁλκάς), Cyr.Coisl. 394 (Rh.Mus. 43.451).

In the wild

ὁλκάδας · holkadas Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 171)
ὁλκάδας · holkadas Aristophanes, Peace (DIORISIS sentence 27)
ὁλκάσι · holkasi Aristotle, Economics 1347b (DIORISIS sentence 167)
ὁλκάσιν · holkasin Aristotle, Oeconomica II (DIORISIS sentence 55)
ὁλκάδα · holkada Herodotus, Histories 3.135.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3912)
ὁλκάδα · holkada Herodotus, Histories 3.135.3 (DIORISIS sentence 3914)

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