roll-top desk


noun
  1. a desk having a slatted wooden panel that can be pulled down over the writing surface when not in use: Also called: roll-top

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How to use roll-top desk in a sentence

  • 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
  • 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
  • Herr Uthoug had just lit the gas, and was on the point of sitting down at his American roll-top desk, when Peer entered.

    The Great Hunger | Johan Bojer
  • The doors of these shops are corrugated iron and are raised up like the cover of a roll-top desk.

    Birdseye Views of Far Lands | James T. Nichols