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|Full diacritics=κνᾰφος
|Medium diacritics=κνάφος
|Low diacritics=κνάφος
|Capitals=ΚΝΑΦΟΣ
|Transliteration A=knáphos
|Transliteration B=knaphos
|Transliteration C=knafos
|Beta Code=kna/fos
|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">prickly teasel</b>, <span class="bibl">Alc.Com.35</span>; used by fullers to card or clean cloth, Sch.<span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Pl.</span>166</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> = [[ἱπποφαές]], Gal.19.106. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b2">carding-comb</b>, also used as an instrument of torture, ἐπὶ κνάφου ἕλκειν τινά <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.92</span> (<b class="b3">κναφηΐον</b> codd.), cf. <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Mul.</span> 2.114</span>, Plu.2.858e (γναφ-), Hsch.</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-1459.png Seite 1459]] ὁ, und später γνάφος, die stachligen Karden, mit welchen der Walker das Tuch aufkratzt, Schol. Ar. Plut. 166. – Auch ein stachliges Marterwerkzeug, Her. 1, 92; VLL.
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