Noah Webster
Rostrum
ROS'TRUM, noun [Latin]
1. The beak or bill of a bird.
2. The beak or head of a ship.
3. In ancient Rome, a scaffold or elevated place in the forum, where orations, pleadings funeral harangues, etc., were delivered.
4. The pipe which conveys the distilling liquor into its receiver, in the common alembic.
5. A crooked pair of scissors, used by surgeons for dilating wounds.