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σκάμμα , ατος, τό, (σκάπτω)
A.that which has been dug, trench, pit, Pl. Lg.845e.
2. action of digging, “οὕτω τὸ ς. ποιοῦσι” Apollod.Poliorc. 145.5.
II. place dug up and sanded, on which wrestlers practised, CIG2758 111 col.3 D (Aphrodisias), cf. IG14.1102.16 (Rome), 1107.10 (ibid.), Gal.Thras.46: prov., ἐπὶ τοῦ ς. ὤν at a crisis, time of trial, Plb.38.18.5; εἰς τοσοῦτο ς. προεκαλεῖτο πάντα ὁντιναοῦν to such trials, Arr.Epict.4.8.26.
2. place dug up, on which athletes landed in the long jump, AB 224.
3. furrow marking the length of a jump, Sch.Pi.N.5.34a; cf. “σκάπτω” 11.3.
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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