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The prow, beak, ram, or cutwater of a ship
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Beak-like projection of crab carapace between the eyes.
Ãâó: www.mesa.edu.au/friends/seashores/glossary.html
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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.
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in belemnites, the rear part of the bullet-shaped, cylindrical internal shell, also called the guard. Its purpose was possibly to act as a counter-balance to the weight of the animal's head and tentacles.
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the beak or ram of a warship, often with three prongs (rostrum tridens). Those captured by C. Maenius from the fleet of the neighbouring city of Antium in 338 BC were used to adorn the speakers' platform in the Roman Forum. Thus, this structure acquired the name rostra ('beaks'), hence the word rostrum in modern English. David Sear
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