roll top

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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earnest

full seriousness, as of intention or purpose.

a feeling of dread, anxiety, or anguish.

urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.

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Origin of roll top

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Words nearby roll top

roll off, roll on, roll out, roll over, roll the bones, roll top, roll up, roll up one's sleeves, roll with the punches, roll-around, roll-off

Example sentences from the Web for roll top

What part of it wasn't taken up by a roll-top desk was filled by a table fairly groaning under its load of magazines.
The Trail of Conflict|Emilie Baker Loring
There were a table and a chair or two, and in a corner an American roll-top desk.
Hard Pressed|Fred M. White
In the room beyond, evidently the holy of holies, he could see an elderly man at a roll-top desk smoking a large cigar.
McAllister and His Double|Arthur Train
With his back to Carl, the dean was writing at a roll-top desk.
The Trail of the Hawk|Sinclair Lewis

The next morning Leon Sammet sat at his roll-top desk in his private office, while Barney went over the morning mail.
Potash & Perlmutter|Montague Glass

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