A table designed for a particular task

Usage examples of worktable.

There were machines, a good many machinescomputer substations built into the walls, strange devices the like of which Haviland Tuf had never seen, flat worktables with waldoes and microhands built into them.

Inside the sugarhouse, he went to the pile of wood, uncovered the worn canvas pack, and set it on the worktable.

I tried to pretend he was there on his own business, even tried to drum up anger or indifference, but neither came, and then he had warm bagels and veggie cheese and lox arranged on paper plates on the empty end of the worktable, and it was too much.

The agent went to a pile of old notes and blueprints on the worktable.

He walked into the room that had been indicated, and saw Mary and Lurt huddled over a worktable.

Emuin was at his worktable, having just slapped a measuring rod down to pin an array of parchments across the table surface.

D U S T T 0 D U S T 217 C H A P T E R TH E PHOTOGRAPHS ARE lyingona narrow worktable, a cone of yellow light shining down on them from the desk lamp.

Her favorite room, the kitchen, was a dream, with a huge woodfired iron stove, giant oak worktable, four ovens built into brick walls, and a pantry big enough to hold a 7-Eleven store.

Master Jerint, bent over a vise attached to his wide and cluttered worktable, was the only occupant of the big room.

Molly's eyes darted from a huge Tele funken entertainment console to shelves of antique disk re cordings, their crumbling spines cased in clear plastic, to a wide worktable littered with slabs of silicon.

One morning two children pushed open the door and were startled at the sight of a filthy and hairy man who was still deciphering the parchments on the worktable.

Turner followed him down the room, past a worktable where a micromanipulator waited beneath its dustcover Past the dusty rectangular eyes of a bank of aged monitors, one of them with a shattered screen.

An engine hung on chains from an I beam above garage disorder, tanks, tool cabinets, oilcans, ammeters, tires, tire lever and well, a folding chair behind a worktable of mallets, a board of car rings on hooks, vises and clamps and greasy rags everywhere, a beaded curtain marking off a personal area, and Arkady realized that he was directly below Pribluda's parlor.

At one end of the worktable a handful of unpolished broad arrow points lay in a little heap on a leather pad.

At one end of the worktable a handful ofunpolished broad arrow points lay in a little heapon a leather pad.