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κλι_μα^κ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, Dim. of κλῖμαξ,
A.small ladder or stair, Plb.5.97.5 (pl.); ship's ladder, IG22.1622.149, 203, al., AB272 (pl.).
2. woman who makes a stepladder of herself, by letting persons step on her back to mount a carriage, Plu.2.50d, Ath.6.256d.
3. wooden groove for διώστρα in a torsion-engine, Ph.Bel.54.7, Hero Bel.100.7.
4. surgical machine for reducing dislocations, Orib.47.4.15.
5. wooden frame with openings for coffers in ceilings, IG12.372, 373, Inscr.Delos 504A13 (iii B.C.).
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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