σκέπαρν-ον, τό,
or σκέπαρνος, ὁ (the Homeric passages and [[ LXX.1Ch.20.3, LXX.Isa.44.12 ] LXX], leave the gender uncertain, masculine in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 35, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 797, “PCair.Zen.” 753.33 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later mostly neuter, [[ “Periplus Maris Rubri [1st c.AD]” 6, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.205 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “JConf.” 11, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 10.146, compare 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc.)] Refs 1st c.AD+]:— carpenter's axe, adze, for hewing and smoothing the trunks of trees, different from the πέλεκυς (felling-axe or hatchet), [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.237, 9.391 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀμφίξουν [[“Anthologia Graeca” [prev. cited] ] Refs]
__II from a like ness in the shape, a slightly oblique surgical bandage, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “κατ᾽ ἰητρεῖον” 7 (_neuter_): but _masculine_ in _plural_, [ἐπίδεσις] πλείστους σκεπάρνους ἔχουσα] Refs 5th c.BC+] with many oblique turns, [[ [prev. author] “Art.” 35. ] Refs]
__III used, as a sort of pun, of a sheepskin, as if σκέπ-αρνον, [[ 4th c.BC: Dionysius Tragicus 12, cf. Scholia 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus p.11 H., interpolated in 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 4.22. [8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus does not lengthen a short vowel before σκ-, compare Σκάμανδρος.] ] Refs 8th c.BC+]