A.whatever the wind carries along: hence, rubbish, such as collects in a farm-yard or a carpenter's shop, “σύες ἐπὶ φορυτῷ μαργαίνουσιν” Democr.147; “ὅταν μύες περὶ φορυτοῦ μάχωνται” Thphr. Sign.49, cf. Ar.Ach.72, Com.Adesp.906; chips or shavings, Arist. HA628b11, Conon 48.8; “ξύλων φ.” Aen.Tact.37.2; used for packing earthenware to keep it from breaking, Ar.Ach.927; of the materials of a bird's nest, Arist.HA616a12; βρωμάτων φ. a mishmash of all kinds of meat, Alciphr.3.7.
φορυ^τός , ὁ,
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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