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   pulpit

   /ˈpʊlpɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a raised enclosed platform in a church or chapel from which the preacher delivers a sermon: "many ministers delivered political guidance from their pulpits"
   • ▪ religious teaching as expressed in sermons: "the movies could rival the pulpit as an agency moulding the ideas of the mass public"
   • 2. a raised platform in the bows of a fishing boat or whaler.
   • ▪ a guard rail enclosing a small area at the bow of a yacht.

   Word Origin Middle English: from Latin pulpitum ‘scaffold, platform’, in medieval Latin‘pulpit’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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