Ranks, battle arrays. But some [say] it is a hoplite multitude from several companies of soldiers. Also a term for the joints of the fingers; and frameworks of a ship. phalanxes. Some also [call] rounded and symmetrical timber φαλάγγια ; and the beam of a yoke is also called a phalanx.[1] And the gangplank for [boarding] a ship. But [sc. note] also the spider, which some call φαλάγγιον . And crows are also called φαλάγγια in Attic writers.