Definitions for the word "rostrum" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
The beak or head of a ship.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The Beaks; the stage or platform in the forum where orations, pleadings, funeral harangues, etc., were delivered; -- so called because after the Latin war, it was adorned with the beaks of captured vessels; later, applied also to other platforms erected in Rome for the use of public orators.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Same as Rostellum.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
(pl. Rostra or -s) platform for public speaking, an orchestral conductor, etc. [latin]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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