Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

I. machine for hauling ships on land, hauling-engine, prob. a fixed capstan, windlass, Hdt.2.154, 159, E.Rh.146,673 ; but also of movable engines of like kind, for hauling ships across the Isthmus of Corinth, Th.3.15.

2. strap, rein (cf. ῥυτήρ), “τμητοῖς ὁλκοῖς” S.El.863 (lyr.).

II. furrow, track, trace, “αἵματι δ᾽ ὁλκοὶ . . πλήθοντο” A.R.3.1391 ; σμίλης ὁλκός the traces of a chisel in the wood, Ar.Th. 779(lyr.) ; ὁ. τοῦ ξύλου the furrow made by the wood, X.Cyn.9.18 ; path, track, or orbit of a star or meteor, A.R.3.141, 4.296, Nonn.D. 24.90 ; ἁμάξης ib.1.96 ; ditch or channel, A.R.1.375 ; οἴδματος ὁλκοί the waves, ib.1167 ; “ὁλκοὶ καλλιρόων ὑδάτων” Milet.1(9).343 ; body-coils of a serpent, Nic.Th.266, al., Luc.Herm.79 ; but, coiling movement of a serpent, Nic.Th.162, al. ; cf. “ὁ. γλώσσης” Id.Al.79, 281 ; of hair, coil, ὁλκὸς ἐθείρης, πλοκάμων . . ὁλκοί, Nonn.D.3.413, 32.168 : generally, of anything drawn, αἵματος ὁλκῷ ib.4.329, al. ; draught of wine, Antiph. 237.4(pl.).

2. in periphrases, δάφνης ὁλκοί drawings, i. e. laurelboughs (or brooms made of them) drawn along, E.Ion 145 (lyr.) ; τερπνὸς ἀκούεται ὁ. ἁμάξης a chariot drawn, D.P.191.

3. aqueduct, Cod.Just.1.4.26 ; “ὁ. ὑδάτων” Lyd.Mens.3.23.

III. a kind of spider, Dsc.2.63.

IV. a kind of grass, mouse-barley, Plin.HN 27.90.