χωλός, ή, όν,
lame in the feet, halting, limping, with accusative, χωλὸς δ᾽ ἕτερον πόδα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.217, compare 9.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.308, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92.β, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 486, 1032; χ. καὶ οὐκ ἀρτίπους 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.161; χ. τὼ σκέλει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 24 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also with dative, σκέλει χωλός [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.739b; χωλὸς ἀμφοτέροις 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tim.” 20 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: later also of the hand, like{κυλλός}, χωλὸς τὴν χεῖρα [[ 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 343; χεῖρα χωλὴν ἕξειν 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.1, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 794e: of animals, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.5, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, defective, φύσις [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 71e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; one-sided, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 535d ] Refs]; βασιλεία Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 of metre, especially of the χωλίαμβος (which see), halting, μέτρον [[ 7th c.AD: Hephaestio Grammaticus 5.4, 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 301 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of a trochaic metre, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.25. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__II.3 ἀείδειν χωλά, of a 'lame tale', [[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 1.71. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]