A.halfdeck at the stern of a ship, “νηῶν ἴκρι᾽ ἐπῴχετο μακρὰ βιβάσθων” Il.15.676; [“κυβερνήτης] κάππεσ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἰκριόφιν” Od.12.414; εἰς ἴκρια νηὸς ἔβαινον πρῴρης (i.e. from the prow) ib.229; “νηὸς ἐπ᾽ ἰκριόφιν καταλέξεται” 3.353; “εὐπάκτων ἐπ᾽ ἰκρίων σταθεὶς ὄρουσε” B.16.83: wrongly expld. by Eust. as = ἐγκοίλια in Od.5.252, but perh. so used by Nonn. D.40.447,452; expld. as = κεραία in A.R.1.566 by Sch., but prob. wrongly, cf. Lyc.751.
II. generally, platform, stage, “ἴκρια ἐπὶ σταυρῶν ὑψηλῶν . . ἕστηκε” Hdt.5.16, cf. Str.12.3.18, Hsch.
2. scaffolding, IG12.94.28 (prob. in 374.151), 4.39 (Aegina, v B.C.), BCH6.27(Delos, ii B.C.).
4. dub. sens. in Thphr.HP5.6.2.
III. sg.,= ἱστός, mast, Eust.1533.31; pole, dub. l. in Nic.Th.198; set up on a cenotaph, Marcellin.Vit. Thuc.31.