tingle table

tingle table
 n.β€” Β«First letter openings are made by an automatic slicer, and all contents go quickly to the “tingle table,” where employes separate taxpayer checks and their forms from those due refunds.Β» β€”β€œTaxpayers Dealing With Cool Computer” by Thomas D. Williams Hartford Courant (Connecticut) Apr. 17, 1973. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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