rent table

American  

noun

English Furniture.

1. a drum table of the 18th century, having six drawers and originally used by landlords to keep rent money and papers pertaining to their estates.

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Etymology

Origin of rent table

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

Essentially, vendors rent table space cheek-by-jowl, like the souq at Marrakech, and flog their wares to passing journalists, analysts, and bloggers. 

From Forbes

It also comes low on the rent table, having an index number little more than half that of Berlin.

From Project Gutenberg