Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Rostratus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ROSTRA'TUS. Formed in the shape of, or furnished with, a snout or beak (Rostrum); whence applied as a descriptive epithet to many different objects  — to the bill-hook (Columell. ii. 21. 3. ROSTRUM, 3.); to the plough (Plin. H. N. xviii. 48. ROSTRUM, 4.); to a crown (Plin. H. N. xvi. 3. xxii. 4. CORONA, 8.); to a ship (Hirt. B. Afr. 23. ROSTRUM, 1.); to a column (Suet. Galb. 23. COLUMNA, 3.).