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Webster 1913 Edition
Desk
1.
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.
2.
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
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Desked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Desking
.] To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
Webster 1828 Edition
Desk
DESK
, n.1.
An inclining table for the use of writers and readers; usually made with a box or drawer underneath, and sometimes with a book-case above.2.
The pulpit in a church, and figuratively the clerical profession. The man appears well in the desk. He intends one son for the bar, and another for the desk.DESK
,Verb.
T.