στρόβιλος
ὁ
A.
round ball, στρόβιλος ἀμφάκανθον εἱλίξας δέμας rolling its prickly body into a ball, of the hedgehog (ἐχῖνος), Ion Trag.38.4; ὀστράκου ς. the ball of an egg-shell, i.e. a round egg-shell, Lyc. 506, cf. 89.
2.
spinning-top, Pl. R. 436d, Plu. Lys. 12.
3.
cyclone, whirlwind, Arist. Mu. 395a7, Epicur. Ep. 2p.47U., Men. 536.4 (metaph., Id. Sam. 210); τρικυμίαι καὶ ς. Luc. Tox. 19, cf. Aristid. 1.164J., Poll. 4.159.
4.
twist or turn in music, Pherecr. 145.14, Pl.Com. 254.
5.
whirling dance, pirouette, Καρκίνου στρόβιλοι Ar. Pax 864, cf. Ath. 14.630a.
6.
later (Phryn. 374, Gal. 6.591, 15.848), = κῶνος, pine-cone, Thphr. HP 3.9.1, POxy. 1088.55 (i A.D.), 1211.6 (ii A.D.), etc.; κόκκοι στροβίλου IG 14.966.12 (Rome).
7.
fir, pine, PCair.Zen. 157 (iii B.C.), Plu. 2.648d.
8.
stone pine, Pinus Cembra, Dsc. 1.69, Gp. 11.11.1.
9.
winch, or perh. rotating shaft, POxy. 1704.11 (iii A.D.); τὸ μυλαῖον σὺν τῷ στροβίλλῳ (sic) PMerton 39.9 (v/vi A.D.).
10.
= κοχλίας ἢ θαλάττιος κῆρυξ, Sch.Ar. Pax 864.
11.
dub. sens. in PMag.Osl. 1.339, BCH 51.395. [ι regularly, as in ll.cc.; but ι in signf. 6, AP 6.232 (Crin.(?), dub.).]