Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a rolling top.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having a top that rolls away when not needed
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Examples
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Next he noticed a bewhiskered, youthful-looking man, sitting at a roll-top desk, who regarded him curiously.
Chapter 33 2010
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I love their Extended Mac $6,650, plus fabric and Extended Two Seater, a classic roll-top sofa known in the trade as a "Howard" shape.
The Best in Squooshy Sofas Rita Konig 2012
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Nearby store owners spoke admiringly of the furniture they spotted Ms. Lee moving into her new headquarters, including a small roll-top desk she purchased for Mr. Cuomo's 14-year-old, Michaela, who occasionally stops by to do her homework.
Queens Scrapper Goes Suburban Erica Orden 2011
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The big roll-top desk, the Dictaphone, and some of the other items on exhibit here appear in old photographs showing London at work.
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The case of the Apple II computer had originally included a Plexiglas cover, metal straps and a roll-top door.
New Steve Jobs Biography Reveals Personal Details The Associated Press 2011
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A scruffy folder, faintly typed and badly eaten by mice, was discovered in the bottom drawer of an ancient roll-top desk in a house on Lake Chapala.
Dane Chandos Books 2008
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After breakfast, I mounted the Ironic Orange Julius Bike and rode down the hall and past oil paintings of my favorite "Three's Company" characters to my office, where I opened my 19th century roll-top desk and fired up my computer, Ol' Buckshot.
Controversy: Twitter for Tat BikeSnobNYC 2010
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A scruffy folder, faintly typed and badly eaten by mice, was discovered in the bottom drawer of an ancient roll-top desk in a house on Lake Chapala.
Dane Chandos Books 2008
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Will the people who rack the toilet paper so it rolls from the bottom refuse to buy that roll-top tissue?
Jesse Kornbluth: Got a Problem With Roman Polanksi? See The Ghost Writer Anyway. It's A Masterpiece. 2010
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Will the people who rack the toilet paper so it rolls from the bottom refuse to buy that roll-top tissue?
Got a Problem With Roman Polanksi? See The Ghost Writer Anyway. It's A Masterpiece. 2010
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