στελεά

στελεά, ἡ,

• haft, shaft, [στυρακίου] Aen.Tact. 18.10 (unless = socket); Ep. στελεή, τυπίδος A.R. 4.957: also στειλειή, haft of an axe, Od. 21.422, v.l. in Nic. Th. 387.
• • II metaph., στειλέαν,= τὴν μακρὰν ῥάφανον, Antiph. (Fr. 121?) ap. Hsch. (cf. στελεός). (The statement of Hsch., EM 726.52, Eust. 1531.37, that στειλειή = hole in the axe-head, may be due to a misunderstanding of Od. l.c.) (With στελεά, στελεόν, στελεός, cf. OE. stela ‘stem, stalk’, Engl. (dial.) steal ‘handle of a hammer, axe, rake, etc., shaft of an arrow or javelin’.)