wall table

English

Alternative forms

• wall-table

Noun

wall table (plural wall tables)

1. (furniture) A type of table designed to be placed against or mounted on a wall.
   • 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 49:

     "Of course, it's a bit battered, but it would do up quite nicely. And that wall-table - is that the one the woman wanted, that one with the ball and claw legs? She had good taste; it's a really good thing. Only they've ruined it with coats of varnish."