κεραία

English (LSJ)

poet. κεν-αίη, ἡ, (κέρας)

   A horn, Nic.Th.36, Opp.C.3.476.    2 antennae of the crayfish or of insects, Arist.HA526a6. 532a26.    II anything projecting like a horn: hence,    1 yard-arm, A.Eu.557 (lyr.), Th.7.41, IG22.657, 1604.17, PMagd.11.4 (iii B.C.), etc.; κ. καθελέσθαι, ὑφιέναι, i.e.lower sail, Plb.14.10.11, Plu.2.169b; opp. ἐντείνασθαι Call. Fr.anon.382; ἀπὸ ψιλῆς τῆς κ. 'under bare poles', Luc.Tox.19.    b projecting beam of a crane, etc., Th.2.76, cf.4.100, IG11(2).161 A90 (Delos, iii B. C.), Ph.Bel.100.18, Plb.8.5.10, Arr.An.2.19.2.    c projecting parts of the hucklebone, Arist.HA499b30.    d branching stake of wood, used as a pale in a palisade, Plb.18.18.7, App.BC4.78.    e horns of the ancilia, Plu.Num.13.    2 pl., horns of the moon, Arat.785,790.    3 in writing, apex of a letter, IG2.4321.10 (iv B.C.), A.D.Synt.28.27, cf. Ev.Matt.5.18, Ev.Luc.16.17, Antyll. ap.Orib.45.57.4; ζυγομαχεῖν περὶ συλλαβῶν καὶ κ. Plu.2.1100a; διὰ πάσης κ. διῆκον showing itself in every word of a speech, D.H.Din. 7.    4 leg of a pair of compasses, S.E.M.10.54.    5 projecting spur of a mountain, Plu.Cat.Ma.13; of the horns of Europe and Africa at the Straits of Gibraltar, AP4.3b.40 (Agath.); arms of a harbour, Philostr.VS1.21.2.    6 = κέρας v. 3, wing of an army, Hld.9.20.    7 pl., supposed teat-like projections inside the womb, Diocl.Fr.27; but the Fallopian tubes, Gal.UP14.11, Ruf.Onom. 194.    III bow made of horn, AP6.75 (Paul.Sil.).