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