A cross, usually a monumental cross in a churchyard, decorated with palm branches (or substitutes for these) on Palm Sunday. Obsolete.

a large cross, often made of stone, set on a pedestal in a marketplace or other central space in a town or village; cf. cross, n. 7b.

a cross set up in a burial ground or in a locality lacking a church, from the steps or raised base of which sermons were often preached; a…

Roman Catholic Church. A life-size representation of the Crucifixion, on a raised ground in the open air.