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σκάφος [α^] (B), εος, τό,
A.hull of a ship, Hdt.7.182, Th.1.50; “ἐν μέσῳ σκάφει” S.Tr.803; “ὑπτιοῦτο δὲ σκάφη νεῶν” A.Pers.419; ναυτικὰ ς. S.Aj.1278; “Ἀργοῦς σκάφος” E.Med.1; ναὸς or νεὼς ς., poet. = ναῦς, Id.IT1345, al.: generally, ship, οὐδ᾽ ἐπόντισε ς. A.Ag.1013 (lyr.), cf. Supp.440, Ar.Ach.541, D.9.69, BGU1755.4 (i B.C.), etc.; “σκάφευς ἀνάσσων” Alcm.72 (nisi leg. Καφεύς = Κηφεύς): metaph., πόλεως ς. the ship of the state, Ar.V.29.
b. τὸ ἴδιον κυβερνῆσαι ς. 'paddle one's own canoe', Phld.Rh.2.294 S.
2. hollow of the external ear, Poll.2.85.
II. = σκαφεῖον, AP6.21.7.
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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