Workstand
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A worktable.
"The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies. There were drawers within drawers, and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each spool of cotton, with a lid to shut over it, and a lever to lift it out; all requiring as much time in opening and shutting, raising up, and pushing aside, as it would have taken to extricate the various implements and materials from a disordered work-bag."
- 2 A device designed to lift and securely hold at a comfortable height something one is working on.
"A is essentially a workstand, intended to hold the axle and part of the propeller shaft while doing repair work thereon."
- 3 A raised platform on which to stand while working, often with a hydraulic lift.
"On November 21, 1974, a civilian employee at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas was fatally injured by a fall from a workstand while applying tape and masking paper to the fuselage of a huge C-5A cargo plane."
Example
More examples"The workstand was completed—a complication of intricacies. There were drawers within drawers, and boxes within boxes; an apartment for each spool of cotton, with a lid to shut over it, and a lever to lift it out; all requiring as much time in opening and shutting, raising up, and pushing aside, as it would have taken to extricate the various implements and materials from a disordered work-bag."
Etymology
From work + stand.
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