(religion) The practice of some Protestant churches to allow all people to take Communion, regardless of being members of the church or not.

plural of steam table

(computing) An input device that enables a user to draw images by hand, as if with a pencil, and import them into a computer system.

(mining) A stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed.

A three-legged table.

An apparatus fitted with one or more revolving disks, with weights, pulleys, etc., for illustrating physical laws and phenomena. / A potter's wheel.

plural of whirling table

(Scotland, Christianity, historical, idiomatic) To make a solemn address to those who present themselves to commune at the Lord's Supper, on the feelings appropriate to the service, in order to hinder, so far as possible, those who are unworthy from approaching the table.

(mineralogy) wollastonite

plural of loo table