to draw back or backwards, Il.; to draw the bow, id=Il.: absol., in a sacrifice, to draw the victim's head back, so as to cut its throat, id=Il.
It can hardly be a compd. of αὖ ἐρύω, for αὖ is never elsewh. used in the local sense of back: perh. for ἀνερύω, i. e. ἀνϝερύω.
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