σιρομάστης
ου, ς, ὁ
A.
pit-searcher, i.e. a probe or gauge, with which tax-gatherers searched corn-pits and magazines, used in war to try whether there were pits in the ground, Ph. Bel. 100.5, cf. Ph. 1.135.
II.
barbed lance of the same shape, LXX 3 Ki. 18.28, al., J. AJ 7.2.2.
2.
use of the ς. 11.1, Steph. in Hp. 2.255 D.