Sense

1. a round smooth stone, a roller
2. any round body: a mortar, a kneading-trough

Examples

• ὀλλυμένων Δαναῶν ὀλοφύρεται ἐν φρεσὶ θυμόσ, ὅλμοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 87 6:5)
• "οὑτωσὶ λέγων ’ σκεύη κελεύοντι λέγειν ὁποῖα εἰπεῖν τρίπουσ, χύτρα, λυχνεῖον, ἀκταία, βάθρον, σπόγγοσ, λέβησ, σκαφεῖον, ὅλμοσ, λήκυθοσ, σπυρίσ, μάχαιρα, τρυβλίον, κρατήρ, ῥαφίσ, ἢ πάλιν ὄψων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 606)
• ὅλμοσ ποτήριον κερατίου τρόπον εἰργασμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 86 1:1)
• ὁ δὲ ὅλμοσ ἐστὶ ποτήριον κερατίου τρόπον εἰργασμένον, ὕψοσ ὡσ πυγονιαῖον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 86 1:4)
• μωλύτησ, ἐπέων λίθοσ Ἄσσιοσ, ὅλμοσ ἄτολμοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2962)

Similar forms

• ὅλμον (10)
• ὅλμος (6)
• ὅλμους (3)
• ὄλμον (2)
• ὅλμοις (2)
• Ὅλμοι (2)

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