Obsolete British slang for a church pulpit, a place from which the preacher 'hums' or drones on to the congregation. The name is gently satirical, reducing the sermon to a hum and the pulpit to a box. Found in older British slang dictionaries from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The satirist described the vicar climbing into his hum-box each Sunday to deliver his weekly recitation.
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(obsolete, slang) The pulpit of a church.
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