This entry is identical to Synagoge tau132 Cunningham and Photius, Lexicon tau215 Theodoridis, and the headword occurs nowhere outside of lexicography. At Hesychius tau688 it appears in the genitive with the gloss poihtou=. It cannot therefore be a normal word for craftsman in general (see bibliography); in its original context (likely poetical), it may have been used figuratively for a poet. It derives from the verb teu/xw (tau 435, cf. tau 375, tau 420); cf. tau 428.
For the argument that the root verb referred to the accurate strokes of craftsmen hammering or chiseling surfaces such as bronze, gold, stone and ivory in the arts known today as chasing, sphyrelaton, engraving and relief sculpture see tau 375, nu 211 (citing the scholia to Theocritus, Idylls 1.28), tau 1148.