drill

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Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)

Source

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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verb transitive

P. and V. γυμνάζειν; see exercise.

drill holes in: P. and V. τετραίνειν (acc.), τρυπᾶν (acc.) (Sophocles, Fragment).

substantive

exercise: P. γυμνασία, ἡ.

instrument for drilling holes: P. and V. τρύπανον, τό (Euripides, Cyclops).