or coward’s-corner, subs. phr. (popular).—A pulpit. [Because a clergyman may deliver himself therefrom without fear of contradiction or argument.] For synonyms, see HUM-BOX.
1883. Notes and Queries, 6 S., viii., p. 147. COWARD’S CASTLE …. An epithet …. in use not inaptly for a pulpit. Ibid., p. 238. I have often heard the pulpit called the COWARD’S CASTLE, it being said to be ‘six feet above argument.’
