desk Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a piece of furniture with a writing surface and usually drawers or other compartments

OE. deske, the same word as dish, disk. See Dish, and cf. Disk.

A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.
A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession."

imperfect & past participle Desked ; present participle & verbal noun Desking