A.wood, “κᾶλον ἐν ἱαρῷ πεφυκός” Berl.Sitzb.1927.157 (Cyrene); elsewh. only in pl. κᾶλα, = ξύλα, logs, for burning, κάγκανα κ. h.Merc.112; παλαίθετα κ. Call.Fr.66c; τὰ κ. καὶ τοὺς ἄνθρακας Ion Trag.29; also, timber for joiner's work, ἐπικαμπύλα κ. Hes.Op.427; esp. of ships, ποττὰ κᾶλα （κάλα cod.) Ar.Lys.1253; ἔρρει τὰ κᾶλα the ships are lost (καλά codd.), X.HG1.1.23, Plu.Alc.28. (κᾶλον and κῆλον (q.v.) perh. fr. Κα_ϝελος, cf. καίω.)
κᾶλον , τό,
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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