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Headword: Ξυλεία
Adler number: xi,94
Translated headword: timber-felling
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The gathering of shipbuilding timbers.
Greek Original:
Ξυλεία: ἡ τῶν ξύλων τῶν ναυπηγησίμων συλλογή.
Note:
Usage does not bear out the specificity of this gloss. Timber-felling for any purpose could be termed χυλεία ; if the purpose was shipbuilding we are given extra information to that effect (so e.g. Polybius 3.42.3).
Keywords: botany; definition; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica † on 18 February 2000@12:36:53.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied headword; added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 10 July 2001@10:05:57.
David Whitehead (more keywords; raised status) on 16 September 2007@10:16:36.
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