roll top

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noun

a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.

Also called roll-top desk, rolltop desk . a desk with such a cover.

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Origin of roll top

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Words nearby roll top

rollout, rollover, roll-over arm, Rolls-Royce, roll the bones, roll top, roll-top desk, roll-up, roll up one's sleeves, rollway, roll with the punches

How to use roll top in a sentence

And then I hurried out of the room without locking the drawerwithout pulling down the roll top of the desk, indeed.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage|Gertrude W. Morrison
He was sitting at his roll-top desk, with his feet thrust into the unimaginable litter of papers that covered it.
Gray youth|Oliver Onions
He slid back the roll top, and ran a rapid eye over the neatly filed papers.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles|Agatha Christie
Britt Smith was unarmed, his revolver being found afterwards, fully loaded, in his roll-top desk.
The Centralia Conspiracy|Ralph Chaplin

You went to a furniture dealer and bought a large roll-top desk, and when it came home the genius of order came home with it.
Windfalls|(AKA Alpha of the Plough) Alfred George Gardiner