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Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker. Myself will mount the rostrum in his favor. Addison.

A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice.

nother in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.

A flat canopy, as over a pulpit or tomb. Oxf. Gross.

ntly, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

Any structure shaped like a tub: as, a certain old form of pulpit; a short, broad boat, etc., -- often used jocosely or opprobriously. All being took up and busied, some in pulpits and some in tubs, in the grand work of preaching and holding forth. South.