Definition of Rastrum

1. a music-pen [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rastrum

rasterise
rasterised
rasterises
rasterising
rasterization
rasterizations
rasterize
rasterized
rasterizer
rasterizers
rasterizes
rasterizing
rasters
rastra
rastras
rastrum (current term)
rastrums
rastsvetaevite
rasul
rasures
rasvumite
rat's-tail cactus
rat-a-tat
rat-a-tat-tat
rat-arsed
rat-bite disease
rat-bite fever
rat-catcher

Literary usage of Rastrum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concise Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities: Based on Sir William by Francis Warre Cornish (1898)
"... but not always in poetry, eg in Verg. Georg, i. 94, Arn. ix. 608, rastrum = bidens. (1) The quadridens or four-toothed rake (in Greek probably ..."

2. Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus (1893)
"... perhaps referring to the crescent-shaped iron, the two points of which form the teeth of the rastrum pictured in Rich's Diet. ..."

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