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2. Coffee table - Wikipedia

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   Later coffee tables were designed as low tables, and this idea may have come from the Ottoman Empire, based on the tables in use in tea gardens. As the Anglo-Japanese style was popular in Britain throughout the 1870s and 1880s, [5] and low tables were common in Japan, this seems to be an equally likely source for the concept of a long low table.

3. Table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] Some common types of tables are the dining room tables, which are used for seated persons to eat meals; the coffee table, which is a low table used in living rooms to display items or serve refreshments; and the bedside table, which is commonly used to place an alarm clock and a lamp.

4. Round table (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   The idea stems from the Arthurian legend about the Knights of the Round Table in Camelot. Today, round tables are often used at conferences involving many parties. The most famous modern round table was the one used for talks between the Communist government and Solidarity in Poland in 1989; see: Polish Round Table Agreement. Hence, the term ...

5. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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   a lug nut fastens a wheel to the hub, (UK wheel nut). a "big lug" is usually a term of endearment for a large shy, goofy man. lumber (n.) disused items (as furniture)*; hence lumber room (v.) to encumber (as with such items) ("I was lumbered with work") (v.) to move awkwardly or heavily ("he lumbered out the door")

6. List of inventors - Wikipedia

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   Tim Cook-the CEO of Apple; Ve Elizabeth Cadie (1893–1956), U.S. – heat insulating handle for small home appliances; Herminie Cadolle (1845–1926), France – modern brassiere

7. Glossary of baseball terms - Wikipedia

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   An old-fashioned word referring to a baseball bat, which is typically made of wood from an ash tree. "The shrewd manager substitutes a fast runner for a slow one, and sends in a pinch hitter when the man he takes out is just as good with the ash as the man he sends in." [ 16 ]