worktable

American  

[wurk-tey-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

Etymology

Origin of worktable

First recorded in 1790–1800; work + table

Example Sentences

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“The biggest challenge of working with sand is that there’s no room for mistakes,” she said while sitting at a worktable stocked with dozens of small sand-filled glass jars, all arranged by color.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 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

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

This might mean an uncluttered area for movement or a spacious worktable for crafts.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2021

There wasn’t any time I glanced at the scattered projects on the nearby worktable, looking for anything that could be of some help.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

In Tour’s laboratory, a large, high-ceilinged room with tightly configured rows of worktables, a score of young men in white lab coats and safety goggles were working.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 15, 2014

Then, dressed in a rubber apron and wooden clogs, she lit her kiln, prepared her worktables, and pounded the clay for her classes, her arms up to her elbows in the coarse, cold mud.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende