workstands

Noun

workstand (plural workstands)

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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