短剑号,疑问记号
Obelus \Ob"e*lus\, n.; pl. {Obeli}. [L., fr. Gr. 'obelo`s,
prop., a spit.] (Print.)
A mark [thus ---, or /]; -- so called as resembling a needle.
In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected
passages or readings.