ποδεών

A. ragged ends in the skins of animals, where the feet and tail have been, ἄκρων δέρμα λέοντος ἀφηυμένον ἐκ ποδεώνων a lion's skin hung round one's neck by the paws, Theoc. 22.52.

II. sg., neck or mouth of a wineskin, which was formed by one of these ends, the others being sewn up, Hdt. 2.121.δ/; neck of a skin bag, Hp. Aff. 21, prob. in Art. 77(pl.); ἀσκοῦ τὸν προὔχοντα ποδάονα (Dor. form), of the membrum virile, Orac. ap. Apollod. 3.15.6.

2. neck of the bladder, Poll. 2.196, Phot.

3. generally, of any narrow end, π. στεινός a narrow strip of land, Hdt. 8.31.

4. lower end or corner of a sail, sheet, which in old times was a strip of hide (cf. πούς 11.2), Chrest.Oxy. 1241 v 1 (ii A.D.), Luc. VH 2.45.

5. in pl., of a kind of shoe, Lyd. Mag. 1.12 (πεδ‐ codd.); so perh. AP 6.95 (Antiphil.).