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ἀντλ-ία , ἡ,
A.= ἄντλος, i.e.,
1. hold of a ship, S.Ph.482; “τὴν ἀντλίαν φυλάξω” Ar.Eq.434; δεῖπνον . . ἐξ ἀντλίας ἥκοντα, i.e. the coarse food used by seamen, Dionys.Com.2.41.
2. bilge-water, filth, Ar.Pax17.
3. reservoir, BGU1120.26 (i B.C.), PRyl.92.5 (ii/iii A.D.).
4. = καδίσκος, Hsch.
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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