walking back
walking back, ἱστῶν παλίμβαμοι ὁδοί, of women working at the loom, since they had to walk to and fro from side to side, Pi. P. 9.18.
The corpus record
πᾰλίμ-βᾱμος
palimbamos
walking back
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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.