Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker
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
The beak or proboscis of insect order, Hemiptera (Tectum) Dorsal part of capitulum projecting over chelicerae in acarines
The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic
A portable platform usually in the form of a collapsible hinged framework (gate rostrum) with a separate top Used to raise specific parts of the action or scene
A rostrum is a raised platform on which someone stands when they are speaking to an audience, receiving a prize, or conducting an orchestra. As he stood on the winner's rostrum, he sang the words of the national anthem. a small platform that you stand on when you are making a speech or conducting musicians = podium (from rodere; RODENT)
beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e g weevils
The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn