Tabling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Table \Ta"ble\ (t[=a]"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tabled}
     (t[=a]"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tabling} (t[=a]"bling).]
     1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to
        table fines.
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     2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a
        picture. [Obs.]
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              Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton.
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     4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by
        alternate scores or projections from the middle, to
        prevent slipping; to scarf.
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     5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle.
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     6. In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone,
        by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion, or
        the like) till called for, or indefinitely.
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     7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against
        some one.
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     8. (Naut.) To make broad hems in the skirts and bottoms of
        (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached
        to the boltrope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tabling \Ta"bling\, n.
     1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
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     2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by
        alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
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     3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. --Totten.
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     4. Board; support. [Obs.] --Trence in English (1614).
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     5. Act of playing at tables. See {Table}, n., 10. [Obs.]
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     {Tabling house}, a gambling house. [Obs.] --Northbrooke.
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