σανίς .σᾰνίς, ίδος, ἡ, a board, plank, Anth., etc. anything made of planks: a door, in pl. folding doors, Lat. fores, Hom.:—rare in sg., Eur. a wooden platform, scaffold or stage, Od.: a shipʼs deck, Eur. in pl. wooden tablets for writing on, Eur.:—at Athens, tablets on which were written public notices, Ar., etc. a plank to which offenders were bound or nailed, Hdt.; so perh. in Od. 22. 174.