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pier table en · NOUN

Meanings

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 might stand on its own. 2001, Jamie O’Neill, chapter 6, in At Swim, Two Boys, page 151:

Forms

Hypernyms

table

Relateds

pier glass · pierglass