What is "rollaway"

Usage examples of "rollaway".

Monday noon, Anne and Vincent had brought a rollaway bed and new mattress to Grumblethorpe, purchased additional candles and three kerosene space heaters, half filled the kitchen shelves with cans and non-perishable foods, set the small butane stove in place on the massive kitchen table, and cleaned and dusted each room.

Saturday night I left Anne on the first floor of Grumblethorpe, watching the door, while I curled up on the rollaway in the nursery and let the whispers carry me into a half-sleep.

The remnants of lunch littered the coffee table and the bar top, and spilled off the rollaway room service table.

There was a pale green plastic hair roller on the floor under the rollaway bed.

Propped up and bundled in the rollaway bed, Ivy listened intently as Bill told her all the facts with delicacy, understanding, and total candour, omitting only one - the nightmares.

Janet was sleeping on the rollaway couch, her breath slight, like a finger brushing against paper.

They had to be carried off and fit together on the rollaway, neat puzzles of arms and legs.

Gideon had borrowed a rollaway from the lodge, and Peter had apparently acquired some fishing tackle.

He spent the next two days involving himself in the administration of his little empire, and the next two nights tossing uncomfortably on rollaway bed in the adjoining office.

Michael for support, but he shrugged and rummaged busily through the rollaway toolbox sitting next to a long workbench.

In the gray afternoon, a Rollaway bus drifted up the Interstate through the industrial area of east New Jersey: mile after mile of tall concrete towers, about half of them belching gray, brown and yellow smoke.

Now the very shabby-looking old industrial joystick bolted to a rollaway table was the one thing left that might get them out of this.

Finally, Papi turned to Gladys, who was pushing the rollaway cart around the table, clearing off the plates.

The bed was a rollaway, layered with old dirt that had worn itself slick: there was no sign that the bed had ever worn a sheet.

There were huge tapered cylinders of jet engines on their rollaway stands, all piping and exhaust.