The unglossed headword is the present infinitive active of the verb kre/kw ("I strike, stroke"; see LSJ s.v. and Hesychius kappa4044 s.v. kre/kei ("he/she/it strikes"). In her critical apparatus, Adler cites Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.909 with scholion, where the cognate form kregmw=| (masculine dative singular of kregmo/s, "sound of stringed instruments", cf. LSJ s.v.) occurs; cf. Etymologicum Magnum 536.34. Adler also cites Ambrosian Lexicon 1707.
[1] Present active participle, masculine or neuter genitive plural, of the headword verb; evidently quoted from somewhere. The exact form is attested only here; however, there is one instance of the compound u(pokreko/ntwn ("of strikings upon") at upsilon 522.
[2] The first glossing participle is the same form, but from the verb krou/w, "I smite, strike" or, generally, "I play"; see LSJ s.v. The kithara (kiqa/ra, h(, kiqa/ras; whence the English guitar; here in the feminine accusative singular) was the Greek box lyre; cf. kappa 1590 and West, pp. 50-6. Although there is considerable overlap in terminology, it is to be distinguished from the bowl lyre, of which the barbitos (cf. beta 107, beta 110, and LSJ s.v.) is one type (ibid., pp. 56-9). On lyres generally, cf. lambda 850 and omicron 661.
[3] The second glossing participle is the same form again, but from the later verb e)ggi/zw ("I come near, approach, touch"); see LSJ s.v.