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Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker..

Terreplein :: Terreplein (n.) The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, on which the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate..

Bench :: Bench (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.

Chesses :: Chesses (n. pl.) The platforms, consisting of two or more planks doweled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge..

Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..

Stoop :: Stoop (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door..

Apron :: Apron (n.) A platform, or flooring of plank, at the entrance of a dock, against which the dock gates are shut..

Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..

Parapet :: Parapet (n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like..

Platform :: Platform (n.) A place laid out after a model.

Riser :: Riser (n.) Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like..

Foretop :: Foretop (n.) The platform at the head of the foremast.

Gondola :: Gondola (n.) A long platform car, either having no sides or with very low sides, used on railroads..

Stage :: Stage (n.) The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope..

Dais :: Dais (n.) A platform slightly raised above the floor of a hall or large room, giving distinction to the table and seats placed upon it for the chief guests..

Platform :: Platform (n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

Platform :: Platform (n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform..

Pate :: Pate (n.) A kind of platform with a parapet, usually of an oval form, and generally erected in marshy grounds to cover a gate of a fortified place..

Sollar :: Sollar (n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft..

Floor :: Floor (n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge..

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