Sense

1. a rope drawn across the racecourse, let down when the runners were to start, the starting-line
2. the snare or gin of a birdcatcher

Examples

• ἅμα γοῦν ἔπεσεν ἡ ὕσπληγξ, κἀγὼ ἤδη ἀνακηρύττομαι νενικηκώσ, ὑπερπηδήσασ τὸ στάδιον οὐδὲ ἰδόντων ἐνίοτε τῶν θεατῶν. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 20:5)

Similar forms

• ὕσπληγος (7)
• ὕσπληγγος (2)
• ὑσπλήγων (2)
• ὕσπληγες (2)
• ὕσπληγξ (1)

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