workstand

Noun

1. A worktable.
   • The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies. There were drawers within drawers, and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each spool of cotton, with a lid to shut over it, and a lever to lift it out; all...
   • Close up against one of the jambs, by the window that overlooks the dairy and the henyard and the vegetable garden, is ol' Miss's workstand — a little square mahogany affair that is not independent of the support...
   • […] that he laid the money down on the workstand by the chair he was shaving the man in and went out; that he did not know whether appellant saw him lay the money down or not; that there were several persons in the shop...
2. A device designed to lift and securely hold at a comfortable height something one is working on.
   • A is essentially a workstand, intended to hold the axle and part of the propeller shaft while doing repair work thereon. - 1917, Morris A. Hall, George W. Cravens, Automobile Troubles and Repairs: Welding- Vulcanizing,...
   • Most bike maintenance and adjustment jobs are much easier to do when the bike is placed in a bicycle workstand. - 1999, Vic Armijo, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cycling, page 203:
   • In this technique, the marmoset is placed in dorsal recumbency on the workstand and secured by its canine teeth and adjustable side bars. Once the animal is secured, the workstand is tilted to a 45-degrees position with...
3. A raised platform on which to stand while working, often with a hydraulic lift.
   • On November 21, 1974, a civilian employee at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas was fatally injured by a fall from a workstand while applying tape and masking paper to the fuselage of a huge C-5A cargo plane. - 1975, United...
   • A workstand was moved into position beneath the main door to help crewmembers climb out of the aircraft. The flight engineer climbed out of the aircraft to supervise the refueling, started down the workstand, but...
   • Falls and some overexertion injuries are related to workstand characteristics. As previously mentioned, the absence of railings may increase the severity of an injury, and the frictional properties of the surface may...