σιρομάστης

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ, prop.

   A pit-searcher, i.e. a probe or gauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground, Ph.Bel.100.5, cf. Ph. 1.135.    II barbed lance of the same shape, LXX 3 Ki.18.28, al., J. AJ7.2.2.    2 use of the ς. 11.1, Steph.in Hp.2.255 D.