Obs. [f. BY- 3 a + TABLE.] A side-table; one which is not the main table in a room.

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1550.  Ridley, in Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. I. xxx. 256. To take down and abolish all other by-tables and altars.

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1625.  K. Long, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, III. xxiv. 229. He had seen a Box of most curious worke, upon a by-table.

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a. 1805.  A. Carlyle, Autobiog., 488. His companions [sat] at a by-table.

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