'Pembroke table' definitions:

Definition of 'Pembroke table'

From: GCIDE
  • Pembroke table \Pem"broke ta`ble\ [From Pembroke, a town and shire in Wales.] A style of four-legged drop-leaf table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period. [1913 Webster]
  • The characteristic which gives a table the name of Pembroke consists in the drop leaves, which are held up, when the table is open, by brackets which turn under the top. --F. C. Morse. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]