writing table (ritingta"bl)

1. 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 busine office. - 2t. A tablet; a table-book. He asked for a writing - table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. Luke i. 63. The author defies them and their writing - tables . B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, ii. 2. Knee-hole writing-table, a writing-table having a square or arched opening by which the knees of the person using it are accommodated under the surface upon which he writes, but with drawers, closets with pigeonholes, or shelves, etc., on one or both sides. Also knee hole desk.