work-table

Archaic form of worktable.

Noun

  1. Archaic form of worktable.
    • The little work-tables where feminine fingers are employed are also the playgrounds of the feminine imagination, and their needles become little magic wands, wherewith they transform their rooms into isles of spirits...
    • So a dear little book-case was bought, also of bird’s-eye maple, and a pretty little work-table, with a low chair to match. “That’s very nice,” said Patty, with an air of satisfaction, “for, though I hate to sew, yet...
    • He opened her work-table. A forgotten bit of needlework which she had overlooked in the hurry of leaving, remained. - 1912, Margaret Blake, The Greater Joy: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Company, page 455:

Forms

work-tables