workstand
workstand noun: a worktable.
Noun
workstand (plural workstands)
- A worktable.
- The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies. There were drawers within drawers, and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each spool of cotton, with a lid to shut over it, and a lever to lift it out; all requiring as much time in opening and shutting, raising up, and pushing aside, as...1842 April, Mrs. A.M.F. Annan, “Mr. Chancy's Cooking Stove”, in The Ladies' Garland, volume 5, number 10, page 245, column 2
- Close up against one of the jambs, by the window that overlooks the dairy and the henyard and the vegetable garden, is ol' Miss's workstand — a little square mahogany affair that is not independent of the support furnished it on two sides by the projection of the chimney and the wall by the window.1887, Jeannette H. Walworth, Southern Silhouettes, page 46
- A device designed to lift and securely hold at a comfortable height something one is working on.
- A is essentially a workstand, intended to hold the axle and part of the propeller shaft while doing repair work thereon.1917, Morris A. Hall, George W. Cravens, Automobile Troubles and Repairs: Welding- Vulcanizing, page 70
- Most bike maintenance and adjustment jobs are much easier to do when the bike is placed in a bicycle workstand.1999, Vic Armijo, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cycling, page 203
- A raised platform on which to stand while working, often with a hydraulic lift.
- On November 21, 1974, a civilian employee at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas was fatally injured by a fall from a workstand while applying tape and masking paper to the fuselage of a huge C-5A cargo plane.1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations, Safety in the Federal Workplace, page 179
- A workstand was moved into position beneath the main door to help crewmembers climb out of the aircraft. The flight engineer climbed out of the aircraft to supervise the refueling, started down the workstand, but remembered he had forgotten his flashlight.1980, Approach, volume 25, number 8
Examples of workstand in a sentence
- The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies.1842 April, Mrs. A.M.F. Annan, “Mr. Chancy's Cooking Stove”, in The Ladies' Garland, volume 5, number 10, page 245, column 2:
- If you do supply the workstand, don't fail to put needles, cotton, buttons and darning requisites in one of the drawers.1917, Harold Donaldson Eberlein, “The Well Appointed Guest Room”, in Henry W. Frohne, editor, Home Interiors, page 116:
- In this technique, the marmoset is placed in dorsal recumbency on the workstand and secured by its canine teeth and adjustable side bars.2018, Robert P. Marini, Lynn M. Wachtman, Suzette D. Tardif, The Common Marmoset in Captivity and Biomedical Research, page 181:
- Falls and some overexertion injuries are related to workstand characteristics.1989, Thomas J. Albin, “Assessment of Accident Risk During Haulage Truck and Power Shovel Maintenance and Recommendations for Improved...
Forms of workstand
| plural | workstands |
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Origin of workstand
From work + stand.
Questions about workstand
- What does workstand mean?
- Workstand means a worktable.
- How do you use workstand in a sentence?
- The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies.
- What part of speech is workstand?
- Workstand is a noun.
- What is the plural of workstand?
- The plural of workstand is workstands.
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