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/rˈɛdɪŋ dɛsk/ Listen

adjective

Reading adj.

Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

Reading book, a book for teaching reading; a reader.

Reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church.

Reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.

Reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.

Reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

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Etymology of 'Reading desk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Reading desk" Quotes from Famous Books

... the year 1855 by the Rev. Henry Glynne, Rector: the organ and singers were removed from the west to the east end, the pews converted into open seats, and the cumbrous "three decker" pulpit and reading desk {24a} exchanged for simpler furniture. Unfortunately on the 29th October, 1857, a disastrous fire occurred, almost entirely destroying the roof and fittings of the Church. Its restoration was at once placed in the ...

— The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book - Revised Edition, 1890 • William Henry Gladstone

... negligent habit was by no means unusual of reading the early part of the Communion service from the reading desk. Dr. Parr, in 1785, speaking of the changes he had introduced into his church at Hatton, evidently thought himself very correct in ...

— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton

... a pair of robins took up their abode in the parish church of Hampton, in Warwickshire, and affixed their nest to the church Bible as it lay on the reading desk. The vicar would not allow the birds to be disturbed, and, therefore, provided another Bible. Another instance is related where a clerk, in Wiltshire, found a robin's nest, containing two eggs, under the Bible on the reading desk. The bird was not disturbed, and laid four more, which were hatched ...

— Mamma's Stories about Birds • Anonymous (AKA the author of "Chickseed without Chickweed")