roll-top desk

noun

1. a desk having a slatted wooden panel that can be pulled down over the writing surface when not in use Also calledroll-top

Example Sentences

He was sitting at his roll-top desk, with his feet thrust into the unimaginable litter of papers that covered it.

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Britt Smith was unarmed, his revolver being found afterwards, fully loaded, in his roll-top desk.

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You went to a furniture dealer and bought a large roll-top desk, and when it came home the genius of order came home with it.

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Herr Uthoug had just lit the gas, and was on the point of sitting down at his American roll-top desk, when Peer entered.

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The doors of these shops are corrugated iron and are raised up like the cover of a roll-top desk.

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