DESK

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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.

2.
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."

3.
v.

To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.


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