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σκέπαρνον

σκέπαρνον, a carpenter’s axe

σκέπαρν-ον, τό, or σκέπαρνος, ὁ (the Homeric passages and LXX 1 Ch. 20.3, Is. 44.12, leave the gender uncertain, masc. in Hp. Art. 35, S. Fr. 797, PCair.Zen. 753.33 (iii B.C.); later mostly neut., Peripl.M.Rubr. 6, AP 6.205 (Leon.), Luc. JConf. 11, Poll. 10.146, cf. Phot.):—
  • carpenterʼs axe, adze, for hewing and smoothing the trunks of trees, different from the πέλεκυς (felling-axe or hatchet), Od. 5.237, 9.391; ἀμφίξουν AP l.c.
    • II from a likeness in the shape, a slightly oblique surgical bandage, Hp. Off. 7 (neut.): but masc. in pl., [ἐπίδεσις] πλείστους σκεπάρνους ἔχουσα with many oblique turns, Id. Art. 35.
    • III used, as a sort of pun, of a sheepskin, as if σκέπ-αρνον, Dionys.Trag. 12, cf. Sch.D.T. p.11 H., interpol. in Artem. 4.22. [Hom. does not lengthen a short vowel before σκ-, cf. Σκάμανδρος.]

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