τρίβολος

English (LSJ)

[ῐ], ὁ, name of various prickly plants,    a water-chestnut, Trapa natans, τ. ἔνυδρος Thphr.HP4.9.1, Dsc.4.15.    b caltrops, Tribulus terrestris, Ar.Lys.576; τ. περικαρπιάκανθος, χερσαῖος, Thphr.HP3.1.6, 6.1.3, Dsc. l.c.; ἄκανθαι καὶ τ. LXX Ge.3.18; βάτοι καὶ τ. Ph.1.680, cf. IG14.1934f1 (Rome):—Alc.47 calls sour wine ὀξύτερος τριβόλων.    c τ. φυλλάκανθος, thorny trefoil, Fagonia cretica, Thphr.HP6.5.3.    d τ. παραθαλάσσιος, prickly samphire, Echinophora spinosa, Hp.Nat.Mul.32.    II τρίβολοι, οἱ, a threshing-machine, a board with sharp stones fixed in the bottom, Ph.Bel.85.36, al., LXX 2 Ki.12.31, Longus 3.30; τ. ξύλινος (in the section περὶ κάρρων) Edict.Diocl.15.41; τριβόλους ἀχυρότριβας AP6.104 (Phil.).    III caltrop, i. e. a four-spiked implement thrown on the ground to lame the enemy's horses, Ph.Bel.100.7, Plu.2.200a, Polyaen.1.39.2, 4.3.17, Hdn.4.15.2, Procop.Goth.3.24.    b τ. πηχῶν έ a larger contrivance for stopping boulders, etc., thrown down a slope, Ath.Mech. 38.2.    c οἱ κατακρημνώμενοι τ. an instrument hung from the walls of a fortress as a defence against battering-rams, Ph.Bel.100.15.    d a kind of missile, τριβόλων σιδηρῶν σφενδονῆται D.H.20.1; οἱ τ. οἱ καιόμενοι a kind of incendiary missile, Ph.Bel.100.20, cf. 94.9.    IV part of the bit of a bridle, PCair.Zen.782 (a).9 (iii B. C.), Poll.1.148, Hsch.    V dub. sens. in naval dockyard records, σίδηρος ἐκ τοῦ τ. IG22.1629.1154, 1631.338.    VI as Adj., three-tiered, πυρὰ πυργοειδὴς τ. D.C.74.5.