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τύλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τύλος

Etym.: = tu/lh 1

Sense

  1. a knot or callus
  2. a knob or knot; a knobbed bolt, a ship-bolt, trenail

Examples

  • Ἀριστόβουλοσ δὲ λέγει ἐξελόντα τὸν ἕστορα τοῦ ῥυμοῦ, ὃσ ἦν τύλοσ διαβεβλημένοσ διὰ τοῦ ῥυμοῦ διαμπάξ, ξυνέχων τὸν δεσμόν, ἐξελκύσαι ἔξω τοῦ ῥυμοῦ τὸν ζυγόν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 3 7:3)
  • Τύλοσ δὲ αὐτῇ εἶναι ὄνομα· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 7, chapter 20 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a knot or callus

Related

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

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