στήμων,
Doric dialect στάμων [ᾱ] [[“Anthologia Graeca” 6.160.6 (Antip. Sid.)] Refs], ονος, ὁ: (ἵστημι, compare στῆσαι τὸν σ. [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.32)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—the warp in the upright loom, στήμονι δ᾽ ἐν παύρῳ πολλὴν κρόκα μηρύσασθαι [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 538; ἄττεσθαι 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 2 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀκλώστους σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 221 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κρόκη καὶ σ. [[ “PLille” 6.12 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ξύλων.. στήμονα ἐχόντων τοὺς κάλους laths with the cords as their warp (so as to form mats), [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 169.7; compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 281a, 282d, “Cra.” 388b, 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Fragmenta” 33. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 plural, in woodwork, uncertain meaning, of parts of a ceiling, [[ “Inscription Délos” 504 A 6,9,10 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II thread, σ. ἔνης α [[ Batrachomyomachia 183, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 519, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 892; προσεμβαλόντες σ. καινόν “PCair.Zen.” 423.10 (3rd c.BC), compare 484.14 (uncertain meaning)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; στήμονος ἡμιμναῖον [[ “PEnteux.” 31.4 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; φαντασίαι.. οἷον τριχῶν ἢ κρόκης ἢ στήμονος [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).73; οἱ σ. οἱ ἑψόμενοι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Igne” 43 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; σ. ἐξεσμένος, nickname of a very thin person, 'threadpaper', [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 728 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; strand in torsion engine, [[ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 58.19: _metaphorically_, ἐκ σαπροῦ κρεμάμενοι σ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Phocion” 30. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]