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κνα?́φ-ος , ὁ,
A.prickly teasel, Alc.Com.35; used by fullers to card or clean cloth, Sch.Ar.Pl.166.
2. = ἱπποφαές, Gal.19.106.
II. carding-comb, also used as an instrument of torture, “ἐπὶ κνάφου ἕλκειν τινά” Hdt.1.92 (κναφηΐον codd.), cf. Hp.Mul. 2.114, Plu.2.858e (γναφ-), Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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