A.carpenter's axe, adze, for hewing and smoothing the trunks of trees, different from the πέλεκυς (felling-axe or hatchet), Od.5.237, 9.391; ἀμφίξουν AP l.c.
II. from a like ness in the shape, a slightly oblique surgical bandage, Hp.Off.7 (neut.): but masc. in pl., [ἐπίδεσις] πλείστους σκεπάρνους ἔχουσα with many oblique turns, Id.Art.35.
III. used, as a sort of pun, of a sheepskin, as if σκέπ-αρνον, Dionys.Trag. 12, cf. Sch.D.T.p.11 H., interpol. in Artem.4.22. [Hom. does not lengthen a short vowel before σκ-, cf. Σκάμανδρος.]