roll top
a flexible, sliding cover for the working area of a desk, opening by rising upward and back in quadrantal grooves and rolling up beneath the top.
Also called roll-top desk, rolltop desk . a desk with such a cover.
Origin of roll top
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How to use roll top in a sentence
And then I hurried out of the room without locking the drawerwithout pulling down the roll top of the desk, indeed.
The Girls of Central High on the Stage | Gertrude W. MorrisonHe was sitting at his roll-top desk, with his feet thrust into the unimaginable litter of papers that covered it.
Gray youth | Oliver OnionsHe slid back the roll top, and ran a rapid eye over the neatly filed papers.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha ChristieBritt Smith was unarmed, his revolver being found afterwards, fully loaded, in his roll-top desk.
The Centralia Conspiracy | Ralph ChaplinYou went to a furniture dealer and bought a large roll-top desk, and when it came home the genius of order came home with it.
Windfalls | (AKA Alpha of the Plough) Alfred George Gardiner
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