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χοινικ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ,
A.nave of a wheel, Id.18(2).479, Sch.E.Hipp.1234, Sch.Il.2.104.
II. a kind of trepan, Cels.8.3.1 (acc. written -εικίδα), Gal. 10.448, 19.126.
III. ring forming the stand for a crown, D.22.72, 24.180.
IV. = χοῖνιξ 11, App.BC4.30.
V. cave in a rocky shore, Str.12.3.11.
VI. box or socket for the hinge of a door, IG22.1672.201, 11(2).165.11, 287A102, al. (Delos, iii B. C.).
VII. axle-box, Hero Aut.11.2, Wilcken Chr.176.8 (i A. D.), cf. Hsch. s.v. χνόαι.
VIII. in torsion-engines, box or hub containing strands of gut, Ph.Bel.63.7, 60.3, Hero Bel.96.5.
IX. = χνόη 2, Hippiatr. 96.2, 117.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Androtion, 72
    • Demosthenes, Against Timocrates, 180
    • Euripides, Hippolytus, 1234
    • Strabo, Geography, 12.3.11
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