Definition of Drawing table

1. Noun. A worktable with adjustable top.

Exact synonyms: Drafting Table
Generic synonyms: Work Table, Worktable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawing Table

drawing dead
drawing hand
drawing hands
drawing ink
drawing live
drawing lots
drawing off
drawing out
drawing paper
drawing pin
drawing pins
drawing power
drawing room
drawing rooms
drawing string
drawing table (current term)
drawings
drawish
drawknife
drawknives
drawl
drawlatch
drawlatches
drawled
drawler
drawlers
drawlier
drawliest
drawling
drawlingly

Literary usage of Drawing table

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"The first of these devices seems to have been the drawing-table, so called because the table was furnished with leaves at the ends which drew out. ..."

2. An Universal Etymological English Dictionary ...by Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"drawing table, a Table frt- med to hold Paper for Draughts in Fortification, SfC. To DRAWL out ott'i tt'orii, ..."

3. The Methods of Petrographic-microscopic Research, Their Relative Accuracy by Frederic Eugene Wright (1911)
"THE BECKE DRAWING-TABLE METHOD. In place of the single-screw micrometer ocular, which in itself is of very limited application, ..."

4. Optic Projection, Principles, Installation, and Use of the Magic Lantern by Simon Henry Gage, Henry Phelps Gage (1914)
"The supporting brackets are so jointed that the shelf can be let down when the large drawing table needs to be brought up close to the projection table. ..."

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