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pier table

pier table noun: a small table, usually set against the wall between two windows.

Noun

pier table (plural pier tables)

  1. A small table, usually set against the wall between two windows.
    • There is no telling the love of a Tahitian for a sailor’s trunk. […] When obtained, no pier-table just placed in a drawing-room, is regarded with half the delight.1847, Herman Melville, chapter 39, in Omoo, page 194
    • Curious implements you found in that room. A grape-scissors though never known grapes in the house. A quirl for scraping butter. Longish spoon with holes in it that was called a mote-skimmer: used for straining the strangers off your tea. All laid out on the pier-table, its cloth so starched it...2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 6, in At Swim, Two Boys, page 151

Forms of pier table

pluralpier tables

Questions about pier table

What does pier table mean?
Pier table means a small table, usually set against the wall between two windows.
What part of speech is pier table?
Pier table is a noun.
What is the plural of pier table?
The plural of pier table is pier tables.

Words near pier table in the dictionary

  1. pier
  2. pier glass
  3. pier glasses
  4. Pier Milan
  5. pier runner
  6. pier table
  7. pier tables
  8. pierage
  9. pierages
  10. Pierakop
  11. Pieratt

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