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Definition of Reading desk
1. Noun. Desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reading Desk
Literary usage of Reading desk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1905)
"Everywhere he was received with an enthusiasm which became at last essential to
his happiness, and in the passage from reading-desk to reading-desk Dickens ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"Every boy in the THE reading desk IN THE CREMORNE MISSION ROOM. ward knew his
name, and all had watched to see how his new craze would turn, ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"On account of the great value of books, precautions were taken to prevent them
being stolen; valuable volumes were generally chained to a reading-desk, ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1843)
"In church language reading-desk is not a correct phrase, the " reading-pew,"
which is directed to be in every church, is a pew or an enclosure to hold the ..."
5. The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both by James Stephen (1824)
"... as well as the direct influence, of the reading- desk and the pulpit; and as
the long-benighted traveller can " appear very great, ..."
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