Definition of "mess-table" [mess-table]

• The table at which a mess eat together. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "AM rather free about women, he had often said, smiling and nodding knowingly to Stubble and Spooney, and other comrades of the mess-table; and they rather respected him than otherwise for this prowess."
• "At the mess-table he sat silently, and drank a great deal."
• "And after the boisterous dulness of the mess-table, the quarrels and scandal of the ladies of the regiment!"