Tabling

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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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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