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- Desk - n. - A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
- Desk - n. - A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."
- Desk - v. t. - To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
- Desked - imp. & p. p. - of Desk
- Desking - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Desk
- Deskwork - n. - Work done at a desk, as by a clerk or writer.
- Carling - n. - A short timber running lengthwise of a ship, from one transverse desk beam to another; also, one of the cross timbers that strengthen a hath; -- usually in pl.
- Pigeonhole - n. - A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartments in a dovecote.
- Bureau - n. - Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
- Swab - n. - To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
- Priedieu - n. - A kneeling desk for prayers.