pulpit

An elevated platform, lectern, or stand used in preaching or conducting a religious service.

Clerics considered as a group.

The ministry of preaching.

An elevated metal guardrail extending around the bow or stern of a yacht or other small vessel.

An elevated platform, such as one used by harpooners in a whaling boat.

A bully pulpit.

To place in or supply with a pulpit.

A rostrum or elevated platform from which a speaker addresses an audience or delivers an oration; specifically, in the Christian church, an elevated and more or less inclosed platform from which the preacher delivers his sermon and, in churches of many denominations, conducts the service.

A bow of iron lashed to the end of the bowsprit of a whaling-vessel, and forming a support for the waist of the harpooner, to insure his safety.