writing arm

1. 1.

   an arm of a tablet-armed chair; widened to provide a writing surface

   Broaderarm

   Part oftablet-armed chair

Questions about writing arm

What does writing arm mean?

writing arm means "an arm of a tablet-armed chair; widened to provide a writing surface".

Is writing arm a common word?

writing arm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.