σχεδί-α,
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, raft, float, ἐπὶ σχεδίης πολυδέσμου [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.33, compare 174, “PLille” 25.4 (3rd c.BC), “PTeb.” 701.152, 318 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ ἐπὶ σχεδίας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 85d; ἐπὶ σχεδιῶν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. διφθέριναι rafts of hides, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.4.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: poetry, boat, ship, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 111 (_anapaest meter_), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.41. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 bridge of boats or pontoons, of the bridge of Darius, epigram cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.88, compare 97, +others; so λινοδέσμῳ σ. πορθμὸν ἀμείψας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 68 (Lyric poetry), compare “Marm.Par.” 66. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 frame, σ. ὑπότροχος a frame on wheels for moving anything upon, [[ 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 10.1. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__II cramp, holdfast, [[ Philo Byzantius Paradoxographus “de Septem Miraculis” 4.2. (In signification 1 the word is probably _feminine_ of σχέδιος (i.e. ναῦς or γέφυρα)] Refs], something knocked up off-hand: signification [[ 11 must be connected with σχεῖν, compare σχεδόν.) ] Refs]