Definition of "writing-table" []

• A table fitted for writing upon, sometimes differentiated from a writing-desk, as being a piece of furniture for the library rather than for the business office. (noun)
• A tablet; a table-book. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He could see only the littered writing-table, the empty space where the type-writer had stood, and the unwashed window-pane."
• "I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder."
• "Winston could see the writing-table with its green-shaded lamp and the speakwrite and the wire baskets deep-laden with papers."