The headword, a dative plural, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1] An approximation of Agathias, Histories 5.22, on the amphibious attack by Kotrigur Huns on the Thracian Chersonese (cf. chi 215) in 559 CE; cf. Frendo (158). For the 'over-thole strake' see Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 151 n.49. LSJ s.v. e)pi/skalmis has a more discursive (but less rebarbative) translation: 'the part of the rowlock on which the oar rests'; cf. Pollux 1.88, Hesychius s.v.