σκέπαρνος

A. carpenter's axe, adze, for hewing and smoothing the trunks of trees, different from the πέλεκυς (felling-axe or hatchet), Od. 5.237, 9.391; ἀμφίξουν AP l.c.

II. from a like ness in the shape, a slightly oblique surgical bandage, Hp. Off. 7 (neut.): but masc. in pl., [ἐπίδεσις] πλείστους σκεπάρνους ἔχουσα with many oblique turns, Id. Art. 35.

III. used, as a sort of pun, of a sheepskin, as if σκέπ‐αρνον, Dionys.Trag. 12, cf. Sch.D.T.p.11 H., interpol. in Artem. 4.22. [Hom. does not lengthen a short vowel before σκ‐, cf. Σκάμανδρος.]