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κνώδαξ , α_κος, ὁ, (cf. κνώδων)
A.pin or pivot on which a body or machine turns, “καθάπερ ἐπὶ κνώδακος τῆς τοῦ δευτέρου σπονδύλου ἀποφύσεως ἡ κεφαλὴ ἐπιστρέφεται” Gal.14.720, cf. 723; axis of a sphere, Orph.Fr.247.26: more freq. in pl., Hero Spir.1.43, S.E.M.10.93, Orib.49.22.21.
II. pl., sockets in which the axes of a drum turn, Ph.Bel.75.45.
III. = χρυσοχοϊκὸν ὄργανον, and in pl., = οἱ ἐν τοῖς φυσητῆρσιν ἀσκοί, Hsch.
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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