Definition of "workbench" []

• A sturdy table or bench at which manual work is done, as by a machinist, carpenter, or jeweler. (noun)

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• "In a panic she was remembering how, when she'd been a little girl, she'd trailed her father around the house, for her father was so rarely in the house; sometimes she would discover him in the cellar at what he called his workbench; here, he had electrical tools, as well as hammers, pliers, screwdrivers."
• "So, I remind him that his workbench is a mess, and he says I never clean the crumbs from the counter after preparing sandwiches."
• "The walls were covered with pictures and over the workbench was a cupboard containing books and songs; the little kitchen was full of shining plates and metal pans or by means of a ladder it was possible to go out on the roof where, in the gutters between it and the neighbor's house, there was a great chest filled with soil."