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Cheniscus

（χηνίσκος). An ornament resembling the head and neck of a goose (χήν), placed sometimes on the prow and sometimes on the stern of a ship. See Navis.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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