Pulpit

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A desk, or platform, for an orator or public speaker.

II. Pulpit ·noun The whole body of the clergy; preachers as a class; also, preaching.

III. Pulpit ·adj Of or pertaining to the pulpit, or preaching; as, a pulpit orator; pulpit eloquence.

IV. Pulpit ·noun An elevated place, or inclosed stage, in a church, in which the clergyman stands while preaching.