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ὄγμος , ὁ,
A.furrow in ploughing, “τοὶ δὲ στρέψασκον ἀν᾽ ὄγμους” Il.18.546 ; “πίονες ὄγμοι” h.Cer.455.
2. swathe in reaping, “ὥς τ᾽ ἀμητῆρες ὄ. ἐλαύνωσιν” Il.11.68 ; “δράγματα δ᾽ ἄλλα μετ᾽ ὄ. . . πῖπτον” 18.552, cf. 557 ; “ὄ. ἄγειν ὀρθόν” Theoc.10.2.
3. strip of cultivated land (written ὤγμος), PFay.120.7 (ii A.D.), BGU166.7 (ii A.D.).
II. metaph., ὅ τε πλήθει μέγας ὄ. [the moon's] vast orbit is accomplished, h.Hom. 32.11 ; of the sun, Arat.749 ; of a hippopotamus, “παλίσσυτον ὄ. ἐλαύνων” Nic.Th.571 ; ὄ. κακῶν . . γήραος, i.e. wrinkled old age, Archil. 116 ; ὄ. ὀδόντων row of teeth, APl.4.265, etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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