κλεῖθρ-ον,
Ionic dialect κλήϊθρον, Attic dialect κλῇθρον, Doric dialect κλᾷθρον (see.below), τό, κλείω A) bar for closing a door, in plural, κλῄθρων λυθέντων [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 396; διοίγειν κλῇθρα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1287, compare 1294 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κλῇθρα πύλης, δόμων, [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 1186, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 1029 (Lyric poetry); κλῇθρα χαλάσθω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1484; κλῄθροισι τὰ προπύλαια πακτοῦν [prev. author] “Lys.” 264; διακόπτοντες ταῖς ἀξίναις τὰ κλεῖθρα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.17; σιδηρᾶ κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 371b; _sing._, ἀμφιδέαι.. ἀπὸ κλείθρου “IG” 22.1627.319. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 boom of a harbour, τοῦ λιμένος τὸ κ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aeneas Tacticus 11.3: usually in _plural_, τὰ στόματα τῶν λιμένων φράττειν τοῖς κ. 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 94.42, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 18.64; τὰ κ. τοῦ Πειραιέως 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.535d. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 ἐπὶ θάμνοις καὶ κλείθροις fences, railings, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.296. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II ={κλειθρία}, μεγάροιο διὰ κλήϊθρον ἔδυνεν [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 146. ] Refs]
__II.2 metaphorically, οἱ τὰ κ. ἔχοντες (i.e. τῆς Πελοποννήσου), of the Corinthians, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 8.6.20, compare 9.4.15. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]