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Mortar M.:

MM> However, you could also say, "sat down to the table".  This
MM> way, you don`t sound like a caveman.

But cavemen had no tables, being uncivilised.  /to table/
occurs a lot in civilised English usage, e.g.:

https://duckduckgo.com/?origin=funnel_home_website&t=h_&q=%22to+table%22+site%3A
gutenberg.org&ia=web

By /civilised/ I mean, of course, the use of English at a time
when only select few had a chance to preserve their writings,
unlike our modern barbaric age, when publishing one`s text is no
longer a hard-earned privilege, so that any teenager generates
publicly readable noise at deafening levels.

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