embolum

From Ancient Greek ἔμβολον (émbolon) from ἐμβάλλω (embállō).

embolum n (genitive embolī); second declension

1. beak of a ship

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “embolum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "embolum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• embolum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “embolum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “embolum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin