roll-top desk
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 OnionsBritt Smith was unarmed, his revolver being found afterwards, fully loaded, in his roll-top desk.
The Centralia Conspiracy | Ralph ChaplinYou 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 GardinerHerr 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 BojerThe 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
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