desk
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From Mediaeval Latin desca, from Latin discus.
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desk (plural desks)
- 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.
- 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.
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table for writing and reading
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lectern — see lectern
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to desk (third-person singular simple present desks, present participle desking, simple past and past participle desked)
- To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.
