'Tabling' definitions:

Definition of 'Tabling'

From: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. To lay or place on a table, as money. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tabling'

From: GCIDE
  • Tabling \Ta"bling\, n.
  • 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Board; support. [Obs.] --Trence in English (1614). [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] --Northbrooke. [1913 Webster]

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