The [verb that means] I break.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the active participle] a)low=n ["threshing"], [meaning one who is] leading [beasts] around in a circle from without, as those on the threshing floors [do]. Or beating, from those who are smiting the ears of grain. Aristophanes [writes]: "the fellow will kill me, driving me around since early this morning."[2]
Aelian [writes]: "some smiting him with fists, some with clubs, some with stones, and some with whatever else fell into their hands forced his life to be cut short."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the middle participle] a)low/menos, [meaning one who is] being trodden, being rubbed together.
"They laid him down under a tame elephant, so that, for fear that he was going to die from being trodden by the beast, he would not get any sleep."[4]