ἀγκύλ-η [ῠ], ἡ,
(ᾰγκος) properly, like{ἀγκάλη}, bend of the arm or wrist, ἀπ ἀγκύλης ἱέναι, a phrase descriptive of the way in which the cottabus was thrown, [[ 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 13.2, compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; ἀπ ἀγκύλης ζησι λάταγας 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 273] Refs 5th c.BC+]; wrongly explanation as cup, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.782d. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 bend of the knee, ham, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Philostrati majoris imagines” 2.6, Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.726. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 joint bent and stiffened by disease, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ὑγρῶν χρήσιος” 6, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.196. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II loop, noose, πλεκτὰς ἀγκύλας[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1408] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in the leash of a hound, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.1; in bandages, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(1).790; in torsion-engines, 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 83.1. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 thong of a javelin, by which it was hurled, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 4.4.3] Refs 1st c.BC+]; hence, the javelin itself, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1476, compare 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 6; δι᾽ ἀγκυλῶν ἱππόται 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 21.256d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]