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λίκνον
λίκνον, τό (also λεῖκνον acc. to Hdn.Gr. 2.543, and λικμός (q.v.)),

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a winnowing-fan

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λίκνον
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λίκνον
Headword (normalized/stripped):
λικνον
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λίκνον, τό (also λεῖκνον acc. to Hdn.Gr. 2.543, and λικμός (q.v.)),
IDX:
63469
URN:
urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n63263
Key:
li/knon

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urn:cite2:scaife-viewer:dictionaries.v1:lsj-n63263-0-0
winnowing-fan, i.e. a broad basket, in which the corn was placed after threshing, and then thrown against the wind so as to winnow the grain from the chaff, Arist. Mete. 368b29; sacred to Dionysus, and carried on the head at his festivals, AP 6.165 ( Phal.); also to Athena, S. Fr. 844; cf. λικνίτης, λικνοφόρος.
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II
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cradle, h.Merc. 21, 150, al., Call. Jov. 48, Arat. 268, Gal. 6.37, etc.

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