refectory table

American  

noun

1. a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.

2. a narrow dining table having extensible ends.

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refectory table British  

noun

1. a long narrow dining table supported by two trestles joined by a stretcher or set into a base

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Etymology

Origin of refectory table

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

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refectory table

I took a seat at a long, hard refectory table.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2018

From January, the sisters will once again disrupt their usual Sunday evening routine, abandoning their long refectory table to eat supper from trays in front of the television.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015

Seated at a Rome refectory table, a young priest tells of hearing the Pope at his window singing along with a choir far below in St. Peter's Square.

From Time Magazine Archive

Something dropped with a dead thud fair and square in the centre of the fine oak refectory table.

From War and the Weird by Forbes Phillips

But at that point Havelock the Dane removed his feet from the refectory table.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien