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στρόβι_λ-ος , ὁ, (στρόβος)
A.round ball, στρόβιλος ἀμφάκανθον εἱλίξας δέμας rolling its prickly body into a ball, of the hedgehog (ἐχῖνος), Ion Trag.38.4; ὀστράκου ς. the ball of an egg-shell, i.e. a round egg-shell, Lyc.506, cf. 89.
2. spinning-top, Pl.R.436d, Plu.Lys. 12.
3. cyclone, whirlwind, Arist.Mu.395a7, Epicur.Ep.2p.47U., Men.536.4 (metaph., Id.Sam.210); τρικυμίαι καὶ ς. Luc.Tox.19, cf. Aristid.1.164J., Poll.4.159.
4. twist or turn in music, Pherecr.145.14, Pl.Com.254.
5. whirling dance, pirouette, “Καρκίνου στρόβιλοι” Ar.Pax864, cf. Ath.14.630a.
6. later (Phryn.374, Gal.6.591, 15.848), = κῶνος, pine-cone, Thphr.HP3.9.1, POxy.1088.55 (i A.D.), 1211.6 (ii A.D.), etc.; “κόκκοι στροβίλου” IG14.966.12 (Rome).
7. fir, pine, PCair.Zen.157 (iii B.C.), Plu.2.648d.
8. stone pine, Pinus Cembra, Dsc.1.69, Gp.11.11.1.
9. winch, or perh. rotating shaft, POxy. 1704.11 (iii A.D.); τὸ μυλαῖον σὺν τῷ στροβίλλῳ (sic) PMerton 39.9 (v/vi A.D.).
10. = κοχλίας ἢ θαλάττιος κῆρυξ, Sch.Ar.Pax864.
11. dub. sens. in PMag.Osl.1.339, BCH51.395. [ι_ regularly, as in ll.cc.; but ι^ in signf. 6, AP6.232 (Crin.(?), dub.).]
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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