στεῖρα

steira

forepart of a shipʼs keel

Appears 5 times across Homer's epics.

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Odyssey 4
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Book 2 1
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2428
Book 10 1
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10522
Book 11 1
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1130
Book 20 1
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20186
Iliad 1
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Book 1 1
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1482

Dictionary (LSJ)

στεῖρα (A), ἡ, (στερεός) A. forepart of a shipʼs keel, continued into the stem or cutwater, ἀμφὶ δὲ κῦμα στείρῃ πορφύρεον μεγάλʼ ἴαχε Il. 1.482, Od. 2.428: cf. στείρωμα, στερέωμα 3, στήριγμα (στείρη only in An.Ox. 3.396). 2. a kind of bandage, Heliod. ap. Orib. 48.20.12. II. f.l. for σπεῖρα in Poll. 2.31.

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