2. Verb. (third-person singular of desk) ¹
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Definition of Desks
1. desk [n] - See also: desk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desks
Literary usage of Desks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"Secretary tops on 17th Century desks are very rare. The wood of secretaries and
desks, in this country, was at first pine, for the simpler specimens, ..."
2. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1921)
"The boxes vary in size from seventeen to thirty inches in length, and the inside,
especially in those intended for desks, often contained the small till or ..."
3. School Management: Including a Full Discussion of School Economy, School by Albert Newton Raub (1898)
"desks.—The desks should be provided to accommodate not more than two pupils each,
... Hard-wood desks are preferable to home-made pine desks, ..."
4. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1864)
"6 inches ; the space occupied by the desks, 59 by 25 ft.; ... The desks are 4 ft
in length, and of four sizes in width, the two front ranges being 16 inches ..."
5. School Architecture: Being Practical Remarks on the Planning, Designing by Edward Robert Robson (1877)
"Advantages of good furniture—School desks, old and new—Dimensions suggested by
Education Department—Convertible desks—Specimens in other countries —German ..."
6. The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their by John Willis Clark (1901)
"Between each pair of desks there is a seat for the reader. The desks on the north
side of the room differ slightly Fig. 57. End of one of the desks on the ..."
7. School Hygiene by Fletcher Bascom Dresslar (1913)
"CHAPTER V SCHOOL desks THESE has been so much written on the hygienic requirements
of school desks that one feels loath to attack this question, ..."
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