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χερμ-άς , άδος, ἡ,
A.large pebble or stone, esp. for throwing or slinging, sling-stone, “τηλεβόλος” Pi.P.3.49; “ὀκριόεσσα” A.Th.300 (lyr.); “κραταίβολος” E.Ba.1096: of pebbles on the seabeach, A.R.2.695 (cf. στία), AP7.693 (Apollonid.); also in later Prose, D.H.9.21, al.
II. in later Poets, large block of stone, Lyc.20,616, AP7.371 (Crin.).
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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