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τρώκ-της , ου, ὁ, (τρώγω)
A.gnawer, mibbler: but in Od.14.289, 15.416, Phoenician traffickers are called τρῶκται, greedy knaves; so “τ. σφόδρ᾽ ἐστίν” Com.Adesp.606; and Gramm. explain τρώκτης by φάγος, φιλοκερδής, πανοῦργος, ἀπατεών, Hsch., Phot., Eust.1757.51; “φιλοχρήματοι καὶ τ.” Philostr.Her.Prooem.1.
2. as Adj., τρῶκται χεῖρες greedy hands, of a usurer, AP9.409 (Antiphan., dub. cj.).
II. a sea-fish with sharp teeth, = ἀμία (q.v.), Ael.NA1.5.
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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