older form of ὄχθος, a rising ground, a bank, dyke by the side of a river, (Iliad by Homer): mostly in plural the raised banks of a river , (Homer); ὄχθαι καπέτοιο the banks of the trench, (Iliad by Homer); also the dunes or denes along the sea (compare θίς); (Odyssey by Homer) (ML)