A.props or shores upon which is laid the frame of a new ship, Od.19.574, cf. Eust. et Sch. adloc.; κατὰ δρυόχων ἐπάγη σανίς Epigr. ap. Moschion ap.Ath.5.209c; ἐκ δρυόχων ναυπηγεῖσθαι to build a ship from the keel, Plb.1.38.5; “δρυόχους ἐπεβάλλετο νηός” A.R.1.723: metaph., δρυόχους τιθέναι δράματος ἀρχάς to lay the keel of a new play, Ar.Th.52: “οἷον ἐκ δρυόχων” Pl. Ti.81b, cf. Plu.2.321e: sg. only in Poll.1.85.
δρύοχοι [υ^], οἱ, （δρυ- 'wooden structure', 'ship' (cf. δόρυ）, ἔχω)
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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