Frustum

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

II. Frustum ·noun The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, ·etc., between two planes, which may be either parallel or inclined to each other.

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frustum
frustum, i, n., a piece, bit (syn.: fragmentum, segmentum). I Lit., of food (class.): frusto panis...

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
frustum
frūstum ī, n 2 FER-, a piece, bit : cadere frustum ex pulli ore: viscera in frusta secant, V.: sem...

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