δέρρις

A. skin, δ. τριχίνη LXX Za. 13.4, cf. AP 12.33 (Mel.).

II. leathern covering, of a jerkin, Eup. 328; of a curtain, Pl.Com. 240, Myrtil. 1.

III. in pl. (sg., Ph. Bel. 95.34), screens of skin or hide, hung before fortifications to deaden the enemy's missiles, Th. 2.75, Cic. Att. 4.19.1, D.S. 20.9, Apollod. Poliorc. 142.2, Polyaen. 3.11.13: generally, curtain, LXX Ex. 26.7, al., IG 5(1).1390.35 (Andania, i B. C.).