Слово "desk". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

When the limit of her distress had been nearly reached, she was beckoned to by a man at one of the many desks within the near-by railing.

The desk was vast.

A desk stands in the center of the room, and it is cluttered with papers, but none of them mean anything; they are simply window dressing for the cleaning service.

  There had been a heap of letters and general rubbish in the pigeonholes of the massive mahogany desk in the corner.

CHAPTER I One morning, in the fall of 1880, a middle-aged woman, accompanied by a young girl of eighteen, presented herself at the clerk's desk of the principal hotel in Columbus, Ohio, and made inquiry as to whether there was anything about the place that she could do.