one who wets, the inner corner of the eye
one who wets, esp. of the inner corner of the eye, Nic. Th. 673, cf. Poll. 2.71.
II sprinkler
sprinkler, Mon.Ant. 23.150 (Adanda).
The corpus record
ῥαν-τήρ
ranter · ὁ
one who wets
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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.