Sense

1. the bent yoke of the plough
2. a sort of pillory in which criminals were fastened by the neck
3. one who has had his neck in the pillory, a knave

Examples

• ἐν ἀρχῇ δὲ καὶ ἐν θύραισ καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ πρώτῃ ἐξόδῳ καὶ ἑώθεν τοῦ ἅπαντοσ ἔτουσ εἴ τισ ἴδοι κίναιδον καὶ ἀπόρρητα ποιοῦντα καὶ πάσχοντα, ἐπίσημον ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ ἀπερρωγότα καὶ μονονουχὶ τοὔνομα τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν ὀνομαζόμενον, ἀπατεῶνα, γόητα, ἐπίορκον, ὄλεθρον, κύφωνα, βάραθρον, μὴ φύγῃ μηδ’ εἰκάσῃ τοῦτον ἀποφράδι ἡμέρᾳ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 14:3)

Similar forms

• κύφων (3)
• κύφωνι (3)
• κύφωσισ‧ (2)
• κύφωμα (2)
• κύφωσις (2)
• κύφωνες (2)
• κυφῶν (2)
• κύφωνας (1)
• κύφωνα (1)
• κύφωμά (1)
• κύφωσιν (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.