TABLES

Noun

tables

plural of table

tables pl (plural only)

Backgammon.

(backgammon) The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.

Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".

Verb

tables

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of table

Anagrams

• Bestla, ablest, ablets, bastle, belast, blates, bleats, stable

Source: Wiktionary


TABLE

Ta"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tableed; p. pr. & vb. n. Tableing.]

1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.

3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.

4. (Carp.)

Definition: To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.

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.

7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

8. (Naut.)

Definition: To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Ta"ble, v. i.

Definition: To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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