Desk

·vt To shut up, as in a desk; to Treasure.

II. Desk ·noun A table, frame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

III. Desk ·noun A reading table or lectern to support the book from which the liturgical service is read, differing from the pulpit from which the sermon is preached; also (·esp. in the United States), a pulpit. Hence, used symbolically for "the clerical profession.".