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τριπ-τήρ , ῆρος, ὁ, (τρίβω)
A.pestle, “καρπὸν . . λειαίνειν τριπτῆρι” Nic. Th.95, cf. Fr.70.15; mortar for grinding ψιμύθιον, Thphr.Lap.56; board under the screw of a wine- or oil-press, Nic.Al.494, cf. AB 308.
II. vat into which wine or oil runs after being pressed out, Is.Fr.24, cf. Poll.7.151; τ. δικῶν （παρὰ προσδοκίαν for ἐλαῶν), of a συκοφάντης treated as an ἄγγος, Ar.Ach.937.
2. horse-trough, “τριπτῆρες τέτταρες τὰ ζεύγη ποτίζειν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ” IG22.1673.21.
3. = ἀκόνη, AB308.
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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