A raised desk, lectern, or platform for an orator or public speaker.
The railing at the bow of a boat, which sometimes extends past the deck. It is sometimes referred to as bow pulpit. The railing at the stern of the boat is sometimes referred to as a stern pulpit; other texts use the term pushpit.
A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands when giving the sermon.
A bow platform for harpooning.
Activity performed from a church pulpit, in other words, preaching, sermons, religious teaching, the preaching profession, preachers collectively or an individual preaching position; by extension: bully pulpit.
A structure that provides support for some other material.
A structure made of scaffolding for workers to stand on while working on a building.
An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
An elevated platform on which dead bodies are ritually disposed of, as by some Native American tribes.
To sustain; to provide support for.
To set up a scaffolding; to surround a building with scaffolding.
To dispose of the bodies of the dead on a scaffold or raised platform, as by some Native American tribes.