TABLING

Verb

tabling

present participle of table

Noun

tabling (plural tablings)

A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

Synonym: tabulation

(carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.

(nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

(obsolete) board; support

Anagrams

• batling, blating

Source: Wiktionary

Ta"bling, n.

1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

2. (Carp.)

Definition: The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

3. (Naut.)

Definition: A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten.

4. Board; support. [Obs.] Trence in English (1614).

5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.] Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.] Northbrooke.

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