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κυ?φ-ων , ωνος, ὁ, (κυφός)
A.crooked piece of wood, bent yoke of the plough, Thgn.1201: κύφωνες, οἱ, two bars in the frame of a chariot, Poll.1.143.
II. pillory, “ἐν τῷ κ. αὐχένα ἔχειν” Cratin.115, cf. Ar. Pl.476, 606; “δεθῆναι ἐν τῷ κ.” Arist.Pol.1306b2; “μαστιγούσθω ἐν τῷ κ.” OGI483.177 (Pergam.).
2. one who has had his neck in the pillory, knave, Archil.178, Luc.Pseudol.17.
III. part of a woman's dress, Posidipp.44.
IV. Archit., curved beam, IG42(1).102.224, al. (Epid., iv B.C.).
V. part of a water-wheel, PLond.3.1177.213 (ii A.D.).
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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