table knife

An ordinary knife used at table, as distinguished from a fruit-knife, a penknife, . table-land, s. Phys. Geog.: A plateau; a plain existing at some considerable elevation above the sea. Volcanic rocks often make such table-lands, as in Central India; so so do limestones. Or a sea-bed or a lake-bed, or a great stretch of country, may be upheaved, The chief table-lands are in the Old World, extensive, low-lying plains rather than table-lands characterizing the New. One occupies about half the surface of Asia, being 5.500 miles from east to west, and from 700 to 2,000 miles from north to south. In Europe there are table-lands in parts of Switzerland, France, Spain, and Bavaria. African tablelands exist in Morocco, Aby in i a, the region of the Victoria Nyanza, . In North America there are plateaux along the Pacific, Labrador, ., and in South America in Brazil and the adjacent countries. "At sunrise we discovered a high table - land (an island) bearing E. by S.- Cook : Second Voyage , bk. iii., ch. iv.