tabling

English

Verb

tabling

  1. present participle and gerund of table

Noun

tabling (plural tablings)

  1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
    Synonym: tabulation
  2. (carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
  3. (nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
    • 1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails:
      On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches
  4. (obsolete) board; support
    • 1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English:
      My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tabling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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