pulpit

koroke A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands to conduct the sermon.
A desk or platform for an orator or public speaker.
puhekieltä 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 as stern pulpit; other texts use the perhaps more appropriate term pushpit.
(label) A plane's cockpit.
*1941 March 24, w:Life (magazine)|Life, p. 85:

In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.