Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A table constructed to hold all the implements for needle-work.
- noun In bookbinding, a table for the sewing-press to stand upon.
- noun A long bench or table on which a number of sewing-machines are placed. A shaft extends under the table to give power to the machines by means of short belts. The operator, seated before his machine, controls the power, as required, by a treadle and independently of all the other machines.
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Examples
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She busily unfolded the sewing-table set it in the bay-window, patted the tea-cloth to smoothness, moved the tray.
Main Street 2004
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Mrs. Babbitt sat over by the piano, making a nightgown and gazing with respect while Babbitt wrote in the exercise-book, to the rhythmical wiggling and squeaking of the sewing-table.
Babbit 2004
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The fifes were combs with tissue paper; the drums were tabourets and the sewing-table.
Main Street 2004
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On the sewing-table was a length of fine Indian muslin which
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Then there was a bright drugget over the faded carpet, the little rocking-chair and sewing-table stood at one window, the ivy ran all over the other, and hid the banqueting performances which went on in that corner.
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Yet the very neatest thing in sight was the little old lady herself, sitting in a green-painted rocker, with a low sewing-table at her side, wooden needles clicking fast in her fleecy knitting.
The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Amy Bell Marlowe
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The table at which we sat was a very ordinary little sewing-table, without any drawer or compartment, and before sitting down I examined it top and bottom, a privilege freely accorded.
Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission
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Seeing nothing else handy, he used his wife's scissors, which lay on the sewing-table.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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If you have mahogany things, you will require a little mahogany table at the head of the couch to hold a reading-lamp -- a sewing-table would be excellent.
The House in Good Taste Elsie de Wolfe
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She sat down in a chair on the other side of my little sewing-table and talked to me.
The Gay Cockade Temple Bailey
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