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μασχάλ-η [χα^], ἡ,
A.arm-pit, “ὑπὸ μασχάλῃ” h.Merc.242, etc.; in pl., Ar.Ach.852, Ec.60; μασχάλην αἴρειν, = κωθωνίζεσθαι, Cratin.298; “οἰνωμένος μ. ἆραι” Ael.Ep.15; of animals, “λύκοι νεβρὸν φέρουσιν ἀμφὶ μασχάλαις” A.Fr.39; μ. τῶν ἐμπροσθίων σκελῶν, of elephants, Arist. PA688b5.
II. in trees and plants, hollow at base of a shoot, axil, Thphr.CP1.6.4; hence, branch, Id.HP3.15.1.
2. young palm-twigs for making baskets or ropes, Hsch.
3. part of the olive-leaf, Id.; of the leaf of ἀνδρόσαιμον, Dsc.3.156.
III. bay, Str.6.2.3.
2. corner, “ἁ βυβλίνα μ.” Tab.Heracl.1.92.
IV. in a ship, the part of the πρῷρα to which the ἀρτέμων is fastened, Hsch.
V. part of a dirigible χελώνη, Ath.Mech.34.5.
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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    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 60
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 242
    • Strabo, Geography, 6.2.3
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 852
    • Aelian, Epistulae Rusticae, 15
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