A.bearing-beam, main beam, esp. in the roof or floor of a house, Od.22.176, Ar.Nu. 1496; any balk or beam, Il.17.744, Th.4.112; bar of a gate or door, Ar.V.201: also, in pl., firewood, PFlor.127.5 (iii A. D.): prov., “ὁ τὴν δοκὸν φέρων” one who has 'swallowed a poker', Arist.Rh.1413b28; ἐν δοκοῖσι is prob. f. l. for ἐνδόκοισι in Archil.66.3, cf. Hsch. s.v. ἔνδοκος.
δοκός , ἡ, later also ὁ, Luc.VH2.1: (δέχομαι):—
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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