plouos

πλόος, ὁ,
Attic dialect contraction πλοῦς; plural πλοῖ Refs 5th c.BC+; dative πλοῖς Refs 5th c.BC+; later, a genitive singular πλοός, as if of third declension (compare χοῦς A), Refs 5th c.BC+: (πλέω):—sailing, voyage, Refs 8th c.BC+; πλοῦν στεῖλαι, ποιεῖσθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔξω πλόου out of one's course, Refs 5th c.BC+; μῆκός ἐστι πλόος ἡμέραι τέσσερες its length is four days' sail, Refs; ἐκ τῶν πλόων when the voyage is done, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 time or tide for sailing, ὡραῖος π., εἰαρινὸς π., Refs 8th c.BC+; π. ἡμῖν ἐγίγνετο, i.e. the wind was fair, Refs 5th c.BC+; πλῷ χρήσασθαι to have a fair wind, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 proverbial, δεύτερος π. 'the next best way', of those who try another scheme if the first fails (from those who use oars when the wind fails, ὁ δ. π. ἐστι δήπου λεγόμενος, ἂν ἀποτύχῃ τις οὐρίου (conjecture), κώπαισι πλεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+; δεύτερος δὲ π..., πειρᾶσθαι.. the next best thing is to try.., Refs 4th c.BC+, compare Κόρινθο; ἡμέτερος ὁ π. 'our innings', Refs
4 later, ={ὁδός}, βαιὸν π. αἰὲν ὀκέλλει, of the crawling of a serpent, Refs 2nd c.BC+
4.b highway, ὑλήεντα διὰ πλόον ἐρχομένοισι Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.