The corpus record

ῥῦμα

ruma1 · τό

that which is drawn

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Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Ajax 1 · 1.27/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k

What it meant — LSJ

that which is drawn

that which is drawn:

1 archers, shot

τόξου ῥ., i.e. the Persian archers, opp. λόγχης ἰσχύς, i.e. the Greek spearmen, A. Pers. 147 (anap.); ἐκ τόξου ῥύματος from the distance of a bow-shot, X. An. 3.3.15; ἐς τόξου ῥ. Eun. Hist. p.271D.

2 towing-line

towing-line, Plb. 1.26.14, 3.46.5, al., D.H. 3.44.

In the wild

ῥῦμα · rhyma Aeschylus, Persians 147–149
ῥῦμα · rhyma Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 83–85
ῥῦμα · rhyma Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 790 (DIORISIS sentence 450)
ῥῦμα · rhyma Sophocles, Ajax 158–159
ῥύματος · rhymatos Xenophon, Anabasis 3.3.15 (DIORISIS sentence 1315)

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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