The tiring of women's wrists through the continuous working of wool.
*cana=n: ponei=n tou\s karpou\s ta\s gunai=kas tw=n xeirw=n dia\ sunexh= tw=n e)ri/wn e)rgasi/an.
Same entry in
Photius (xi9 Theodoridis); cf.
Hesychius xi4 and
Pollux 7.30.
A technically correct definition, as this verb,
cana=n, derives from the commoner one
cai/nein, to work with wool (etc.). In attested instances of it outside lexicography, however, it has a more general sense of being tired.
cf.
xi 2 and
xi 14, and see generally LSJ s.v. (web address 1).
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