† ˈby-table Obs.
[f. by- 3 a + table.]
A side-table; one which is not the main table in a room.
| 1550 Ridley in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. xxx. 256 To take down and abolish all other by-tables and altars. 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis iii. xxiv. 229 He had seen a Box of most curious worke, upon a by-table. a 1805 A. Carlyle Autobiog. 488 His companions [sat] at a by-table. |