μοχλός
(Ionic dialect μοκλός [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 88)] Refs 6th c.BC+], ὁ, bar, lever, crowbar, used for moving ships, μοχλοῖσιν δ᾽ ἄρα τήν γε κατείρυσεν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.261 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; or heavy weights, μοχλοῖς καὶ μηχαναῖσιν ἀνελκύσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 307 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; for forcing doors and gates, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1474 (Lyric poetry), compare “Ba.” 348, 1104, etc.; ὑποβαλόντες τοὺς μ. ὑπὸ τὰς πύλας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 428, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mechanica” 847b11, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II any bar or stake, as in [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.332 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] the stake which Odysseus runs into the Cyclops' eye,[[compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 633. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III wooden or iron bar or bolt placed across gates on the inside and secured by the βάλανος, τοῦ μοχλοῦ διακοπέντος [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.111, compare 2.4, “IG” 12.313.126; μοχλοὺς ἐπιβάλλειν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 415; τὸν μ. ἐμβάλλειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.1.12, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 246; μοχλοῖς καὶ κλῄθροισι τὰ προπύλαια πακτοῦν [prev. work] 264; τὴν πόλιν.. ἀπεκλῄσατε τοῖσι μ. [prev. work] 487 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πύλας μοχλοῖς χαλᾶτε by [drawing back] the bars, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 879; κλῇθρα λύσαντες μοχλοῖς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 99 (more naturally κλῄθρων μοχλοὺς λύσαντες, as in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 310 κἂν μὴ.. τοὺς μοχλοὺς χαλῶσιν): _metaphorically_, μέγας σοι τοῦδ᾽ ἐγὼ φόβου μ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] a bar or defence against fear. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 760. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]