worktable

American  

[wurk-tay-buhl] / ˈwɜrkˌteɪ bəl /

noun

• worktables
  plural

1. a table with a work surface, often with drawers.

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worktable British  

/ ˈwɜːkˌteɪbəl /

noun

1. 1. any table at which writing, sewing, or other work may be done

   2. (in English cabinetwork) a small elegant table fitted with sewing accessories

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• worktables
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of worktable

First recorded in 1790–1800; work + table

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Example Sentences

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Lidia Butcher gives a toolbox and worktable her two sons used to Chelsea Ward for her 17-month-old son.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

Today she reaches the peak of her canvases by riding a scissor lift, which sits behind her worktable, its metal bars speckled with globs of paint in many different colors.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

To repair the bottom of a door, you’d need to be able to work on the bottom edge, which involves removing the door and setting it on sawhorses or a worktable.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2023

Colorful transparent slides, mounted with slivers of nervous tissue from sacrificed animals still gummy to the touch from chemical treatments, lay scattered on the worktable.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2022

Mama looked at the row of clear glass bottles lined up on the kitchen worktable.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

You can install shelves, pegboard and wall-mounted desks or foldable worktables with some basic tools and know-how.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2021

There were three wheels and a kiln, and several worktables covered with test tiles for trying out new glazes, freeze-dried treats for Zelda and ceramics in various states of completion.

From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2021

The other side is a sunlit potting room where the miniature trees—a 400 year-old juniper and a Lilliputian maple, among others—are watered, wired, pinched, pruned and repotted on mahogany worktables.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2016

The worktables are higher than a desk but a little lower than the Apple Store tables they inspired.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 16, 2015

They were too busy, back at their worktables down in the Rotunda Reading Room, folding the paper airplanes they had chosen from that one book in the 700s room.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein

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