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πλῆκ-τρον , Dor. πλᾶκτρον , τό,
A.anything to strike with:
1. instrument for striking the lyre, plectrum, “χρυσέου ὑπὸ π.” h.Ap.185, cf. h.Merc.53, Pi.N.5.24, E.HF351 (lyr.); “κεράτινα π.” Pl. Lg.795a; “π . . . ξύλινον” IG22.1388.80; “κρούειν τῷ π.” Pl.Ly.209b; “π. ἐς λύρην ῥάψαι” Herod.6.51; “πλήκτρῳ . . πληγῶν γιγνομένων” Pl.R.531 b.
2. spear-point, “δορὸς διχόστομον π.” S.Fr.152 (lyr.); διόβολον π., of lightning, E.Alc.129 (lyr.); a bee's sting, Jul.Or.2.90a.
3. cock's spur, Ar.Av.759, 1365, Arist.HA504b7, PA694a13; also, spur of crayfish, “ὥσπερ π.” Id.HA526a5; an analogous bone of the ankle, ib.516b2; part of the thigh-joint, Poll.2.185, Hsch.
4. = πηδάλιον, Hdt.1.194, S.Fr.143.
5. goad, E.Rh.766.
6. = γλῶσσα, Poll. 2.104.
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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