A reading- or singing-desk in a church, esp. that from which the lessons are read; made of wood, metal, or stone, and often in the form of an eagle…

Christian Church. A raised, enclosed platform in a church or chapel (or sometimes on the outside of the building), sometimes with a canopy and…

In a church or chapel: In the general sense of 1, a sloping board on which books used in the service are laid, as the book-board in a pulpit…

A raised floor, platform, scaffold. Applied to a pulpit. Obsolete. rare.

A pulpit.

A pulpit. Obsolete. rare.

An elevated lectern or pulpit, typically located in the nave before the chancel, and raised on two or more steps; = ambon, n. 1.

Applied contemptuously or jocularly to a pulpit, esp. of a nonconformist preacher: cf. tub-preacher, n., tub-thumper, n.

A pulpit. Obsolete.

A raised platform or seat.

The pulpit in a mosque, from one of the steps of which the Friday sermon is delivered.

Church History. An elevated lectern or pulpit, typically located in the nave before the chancel, and raised on two or more steps; = ambo, n.1 histo…

U.S. A board used to support writing or reading materials in front of a preacher or speaker; a lectern. Obsolete.

spec. A pulpit.

= lectern, n.

a stall from which prayers are read in a church (see desk, n. 2a); (also) a prie-dieu.

Something made of wood: spec. slang. The pulpit.

= prayer desk n. at prayer, n.1 compounds 2.