tavern table

American  

noun

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

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tavern table

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Others of the clan Gregor had come out, allured by tidings of his prosperity; and so the broad Doric of lowland Scotch resounded about the tavern table almost as much as the Canadian twang.

From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Walshe, Elizabeth Hely

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

The talk at the tavern table that evening ran on merrily among the young people.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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