preaching cross

English

Noun

preaching cross (plural preaching crosses)

1. A cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected outdoors to designate a preaching place.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “preaching cross”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)