σφενδόν-η, ἡ,
sling, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.600 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (where it is used as a bandage), [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 3, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1142, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1185, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.32 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; σφενδόνῃ οὐκ ἂν ἐφικοίμην αὐτόσ᾽ could not reach it with a sling, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 55.19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 a sling as part of a crane used in unloading ships, [[ “SIG” 241 A 46 (Delph., 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: so perhaps metaphorically, σφενδόνας ἀπ᾽ εὐμέτρου [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1010 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II anything of like shape:
__II.1 sling for a disabled arm, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 16 (compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place])] Refs 8th c.BC+]; suspensory abdominal bandage, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.144, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 48. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 headband worn by women, broad in front, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 5.96, Eust.ad 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 7. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 hoop of a ring in which the stone was set as in a sling, especially the outer or broader part round the stone, collet, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 862, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 359e, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 207a3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]