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σκέπαρν-ον

skeparnon · τό

carpenterʼs axe, adze

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What it meant

σκέπαρν-ον · skeparn-on — LSJ

carpenterʼs axe, adze

carpenterʼs axe, adze, for hewing and smoothing the trunks of trees, different from the πέλεκυς (felling-axe or hatchet), Od. 5.237, 9.391; ἀμφίξουν AP l.c.

II a slightly oblique surgical bandage, oblique turns

from a likeness in the shape, a slightly oblique surgical bandage, Hp. Off. 7 (neut.): but masc. in pl., [ἐπίδεσις] πλείστους σκεπάρνους ἔχουσα with many oblique turns, Id. Art. 35.

III sheepskin

used, as a sort of pun, of a sheepskin, as if σκέπ-αρνον, Dionys.Trag. 12, cf. Sch.D.T. p.11 H., interpol. in Artem. 4.22. [Hom. does not lengthen a short vowel before σκ-, cf. Σκάμανδρος.]

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