mass alias assignment?

["Patrick Mc(avery" <spell_gooder_now@...>]

I am redoing my scientific lamp website. While the holders are different 
one lamp may fit in a hundred different instruments.

I want to model everything in pure Lua.

As tables are anonymous, more then one variable can point to the same table:

dog = {'bark', 'bark', 'bark'}
cat = dog
print(cat[1])--> bark

Is there a way to assign let's say 50 names to the one table in a few lines?

Thanks for reading-Patrick