资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lecturn \Lec"turn\ (l[e^]k"t[u^]rn), n. [LL. lectrinum, fr.
   lectrum; cf. L. legere, lectum, to read.]
   A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which
   the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read;
   hence, a reading desk. [Written also {lectern} and
   {lettern}.] --Fairholt.