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στραγγα^λ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ,
A.intricate knot, Stratt.48; ὑμεῖς . . ἀεὶ στραγγαλίδας ἐσφίγγετε tied knots fast (cf. στραγγαλιάω), Pherecr.21: hence Aristocreon called Chrysippus τῶν Ἀκαδημιακῶν στραγγαλίδων κοπίδα, a knife to cut Academic knots, ap.Plu.2.1033e.
2. knot or induration in the breast or other parts, Arist.HA587b22; cf. στραγγαλιά.
3. some kind of ornament, LXX Jd.8.26; ς. ἀργυρᾶ, ς. χρυσᾶ κεκολλημένη, POxy.1449.18,23 (iii A.D.).
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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