gateleg table

noun

noun

A table with one or more gatelegs.

Now that’s a nice gateleg table in the corner there. Though of course you’d have to put new hinges on it if you wanted to use the flaps.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 8, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 1, page 90:

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