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πεῖραρ (also πεῖρας , v. infr. 1.5), α^τος, τό, Ep., Ion., and Lyr. form of πέρας,
A.end, limit, “οὐδ᾽ εἴ κε τὰ νείατα πείραθ᾽ ἵκηαι γαίης καὶ πόντοιο” Il. 8.478, cf. Od. 5.463, 11.13.
2. completion, οὐ γάρ πω πάντων ἐπὶ πείρατ᾽ ἀέλων ἤλθομεν the end of our labours, 23.248.
3. achievement, execution, mode or means of execution, “ᾧ παιδὶ ἑκάστου πείρατ᾽ ἔειπε” Il.23.350 ; “πείρατ᾽ ἀέθλων δείκνυεν” Pi. P.4.220 ; εἰ δέ τις ἀνδρῶν ἡμετέρης τέχνης πείρατά φησιν ἔχειν says he possesses the secret ( = power of execution) of my art, Zeuxisin PLG2.318, cf. IG 3.399 ; νίκης πείρατ᾽ ἔχονται ἐν ἀθανάτοισι θεοῖσι the achievement of victory is dependent on the gods, Il. 7.102 ; “νίκης ἐν θεοῖσι πείρατα” Archil. 55.
4. final decision, verdict, “ἐπὶ ἴστορι πεῖραρ ἑλέσθαι” Il.18.501.
5. doom, “ἐκφυγέειν μέγα π. ὀϊζύος” Od.5.289 ; “ὥς κεν θᾶσσον ὀλέθρου πείραθ᾽ ἵκηαι” Il.6.143 ; “πεῖρας θανάτου” Pi.O.2.31.
II. instrument, tool, “ἦλθε δὲ χαλκεὺς ὅπλ᾽ ἐν χερσὶν ἔχων χαλκήϊα, πείρατα τέχνης, ἄκμονά τε σφῦράν τ᾽ εὐποίητόν τε πυράγρην” Od.3.433, cf. Sch. Dad loc.
2. esp. tackle, rope, “δησάντων σ᾽. . ὀρθὸν ἐν ἱστοπέδῃ, ἐκ δ᾽ αὐτοῦ πείρατ᾽ ἀνήφθω” Od.12.51 ; “οὐδ᾽ ἔτι δεσμά σ᾽ ἔρυκε, λύοντο δὲ πείρατα πάντα” h.Ap. 129 : metaph., “πτολέμοιο πεῖραρ . . τάνυσσαν” Il.13.359 : “Τρώεσσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπται” 7.402 ; “πᾶσιν ὀλέθρου πείρατ᾽ ἐφῆπτο” Od. 22.33 ; “καιρὸν εἰ φθέγξαιο, πολλῶν πείρατα συντανύσαις ἐν βραχεῖ” Pi.P.1.81. (περ-Fṛ-, περ-Fṇ-τ-, cogn. with πείρω, πόρος.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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