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worktable

[ wurk-tey-buhl ]

noun

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


worktable

/ ˈwɜːkˌteɪbəl /

noun

    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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of worktable1

First recorded in 1790–1800; work + table
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Example Sentences

They went back into the Maintenance Section, and Vaneski spread the suit out on the worktable.

He appears to have come to his worktable inevitably with his mind full of the compositions he had been studying.

Lorilleux, in front of his worktable, was perspiring with the warmth as he soldered the links of a chain together.

Daoud, Lorenzo, and Sophia sat in a semicircle across from Ugolini's worktable.

On a well-scrubbed worktable place a clean dish towel, and on this put the utensils and the bottles right side up.

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