tavern table

American  

noun

1. a short table having a narrow, deep apron and legs connected by a box stretcher.

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Example Sentences

His canvases show mainly sunny people, as if reflected in the elbow-polished wood of a tavern table.

From Time Magazine Archive

What?—wouldst thou become a jest and byword for every tavern table between the Temple and the Tower?

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William

There was a pine tavern table, 17th century in feeling but made nearly two hundred years later.

From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Lieberman, Frank

Rarer and rarer grew those admirers who would pound on the tavern table, saying, "Ah, old Florie, that was a devil of a lad for you!"

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

Yet, when he placed his squat figure behind a tavern table, and looked at me quietly with his mouth shut, he was both handsome and distinguished in appearance.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 by Various