tea table

See also: tea-table and teatable

English

Alternative forms

• tea-table, teatable

Noun

tea table (plural tea tables)

1. (furniture) A small table upon which tea is set to be served.
   • 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:

     Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it, they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness.

2. (geology) A type of rock column comprising discrete layers, with the top layers being wider than the base due to greater resistance to erosion and weathering.

Hypernyms

• table

Derived terms

• tea-table

References

• tea table on Wikipedia.Wikipedia