The corpus record
rachetron · τό
the beginning of the spine
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= ῥάχις, Hsch.; acc. to Phot. the beginning of the spine, acc. to Poll. 2.136 the middle; = πλευρόν, Did. ap. Phot.
butcherʼs knife or chopper, Poll. 7.25; Hsch. cites βράκετον (leg. -τρον) = δρέπανον.
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.