[Meaning something] falling sharply, or having a sharp dart.
*)ocubelh/s: o)ce/ws ba/llwn, h)\ o)cu\ be/los e)/xwn.
Same or similar entries in other lexica (references at
Photius omicron376 Theodoridis), and cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.126, where the headword is used (of an arrow: web address 1).
As presented by LSJ s.v., this adjective begins (in the
Homer passage) by meaning the second of the two things glossed here; the first is attested later, in historiography and technical writings.
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