A.pointed stake: esp.,
I. vine-prop, pole, Ar.Ach.986, V.1201, Pax1263, Th.3.70, BGU 1122.17 (i B. C.): prov. ἐξηπάτησεν ἡ χ. τὴν ἄμπελον, of those who trust in a 'broken reed', Ar.V.1291.
II. pale, used in fortifying the entrenchments of a camp, Id.Ach.1178, D.21.167; = Lat. vallus, Plb.1.29.3, 18.18.1:
2. collectively, = χαράκωμα, palisaded camp, Theophil.Com.9, SIG363.1 (Ephesus, iii B. C.), Men.77, Plu.Caes.17 (pl.), Jul.Or.2.60b; “τὰν ἐκτὸς τοῦ χ. χώραν” IG42(1).76.21 (Epid., ii B. C.); palisade, χάρακα βαλέσθαι πρὸς τῇ πόλει (v.l. χαράκωμα) D.18.87; = Lat. vallum, Plb.1.80.11, 3.45.5, al., Ev.Luc.19.43; χάρακα τίθεσθαι form an entrenched camp, D.H.6.29; “χ. βαλέσθαι” Plu.Aem.17, cf. Marc.18, etc.; “βάλλειν” Id.Sull.28; ἀποταφρεύειν, περιταφρεύειν, ib.21, Luc.31; “διασπᾶν” Id.Ant.18; “χ. σεσιδηρωμένος καὶ ἁλύσεσι δεδεμένος” D.S.19.83; “χ. κύκλῳ τῆς νεώς” Moschio ap.Ath.5.208d.
III. cutting, slip, esp. of an olive, Thphr.HP2.1.2, CP5.1.[4], Gp.9.11.5; of other plants, Thphr.CP 1.12.9.
IV. a seafish, one of the breams, Sargus, Diph.Siph. ap. Ath 8.355e, Opp.H. 1.173; also a fish of the Red Sea, Ael.NA12.25.