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English (LSJ)

ιγγος, ὁ (ἡ, EM446.31): (στρέφω):—

   A pivot, axle or pin on which a body turns, E.Ph.1126.    2 pl., pivots working in sockets, at top and bottom of a door, Thphr.HP5.5.4, al., PCair.Zen. 782 (a).7(iii B.C.), Plu.Rom.23, Gal.UP1.15.    3 metaph., γλώττης σ., of a well-hung tongue, Ar.Ra.892; of the vertebrae, Pherecr. 236, Pl.Ti.74a, 74b.    4 νύμφη ἡ ἐν τῷ σ., dub. sens. in AJA30.249 (Cyprus).