tablingn.

Brit.

/ˈteɪbl̩ɪŋ/,

/ˈteɪblɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈteɪb(ə)lɪŋ/

Forms: see table n. and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s tableinge, 1600s–1700s tableing (Scottish).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: table n., -ing suffix¹; table v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < table n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < table v. + -ing suffix¹. With sense 1 compare earlier tablement n. 1, table n. 21a. With sense 9 compare water tabling n. 2. With sense 11 compare earlier tablature n. 3.

1. Architecture (chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern)). A horizontal projecting course; spec. a coping stone, a cornice. Also (esp. in early use): the construction of a horizontal projecting course or moulding (see table n. 21a).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > projecting moulding(s)

tablementa1400

tabling1410

projecture1563

rib1608

watering table1609

tableting1610

ledge1611

quarter-round1664

cornice1670

bolection1708

dress1726

tablet?1756

dressing1789

1410–11 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. clxviii In ij. bussellis calcis emptis pro dictis fenestris et pro tabelyng de les wykes ibidem, iiij.d.

1426 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 14 Richard and Adam schal make..a stepel..the wallyng, the tabellyng, and the orbyng sewtly after the stepil of Dunstale.

1589 Burgh Court Bks. St. Andrews 17 Sept. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Tabilling To putt wp sufficient tabling langis the wall abone baythe the saidis inner housis quhairby the ruif thairoff mey be sufficiently valter thicht.

1671 in R. Holmes Pontefract Bk. Entries (1882) 103 Item, for corbells, rigginge and tableinge 1. 13. 4.

1698 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 244 To the slatters lads for dighting the spouts and tabling 5s.

1720 J. Steuart Letter-bk. 128 The outer wall is built to the capston or tableing.

1792 J. Wood Cottages (1806) 9 The summer stone..becomes an abutment..and support to the rest of the tabling.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1039 Tabling, a term used by the Scotch builders to denote the coping of the walls of very common houses.

1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 21 There was the corbel tabling, showing the old height.

1935 St. Andrews Citizen 13 July 4 The lead under the tabling on the gables.

1977 C. M. Harris Hist. Archit. Sourcebk. 518/1 Tablet,..a coping stone, set flat; also called tabling.

2003 T. Booth & M. Dyson Build your Own Home xv. 157 It may be normal practice in your locality for verges to over-sail the ends of buildings, or alternatively they might have to be capped by stone slabs (termed ‘tabling’).

a. The action of setting down or entering something in a table; tabulation. Also: an instance of this.

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society > communication > record > list > [noun] > making list > tabular

tabling?c1450

tabulating1757

society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram > tabular form

tableOE

tabling?c1450

tablement1551

chart1792

tableau1792

tabulation1837

plan1855

?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 361 To her settyng hygher or lower,..tabulyng and assygnementes, alle owe redyly to obey.

1514 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 15 All materis till have plaice eftir the ordour and taibling quhar it was left of befor.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Rrr4^v Tabling of Fines, is the making of a table for euery countie, where his Maiesties writ runneth, conteining the contents of euery fine, that shall passe in any one terme.

1624 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 30/2 An Act concerning the fees to be taken in cities, boroughs, towns, &c., and the tabling thereof.

1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Tabling of Fines The Chirographers Fee for every such Tabling is 4 d.

1734 Testimony to Doctr. Curch Scotl. 4 The Brethren who heard the Sermon appeared to be of different Sentiments at the first Tabling of this Affair.

1786 T. Williams Entire New Work 7 It is absolutely necessary in finding the Quantity of the Degrees of Gravity on the Surface of the Spheriod [sic], that a Method of Tabling should be found to give a just Distribution to them.

1955 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 118 104 Probably the most ambitious tabling projects carried out..were the calculation of the Incomplete Gamma Function and the Incomplete Beta Function tables.

1996 Educ. Researcher 25 9/1 We have observed in high school mathematics classrooms..that much of student time is spent on tasks such as tabling and graphing.

†b. Scots Law. The action of entering a summons, action, etc., in the roll of matters to be dealt with in a court. Cf. table v. 1b. Obsolete.

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society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > action of laying something before court

presentment1423

sentementc1500

tabling1528

reference1579

referrance1583

1528 in R. Milne Blackfriars of Perth (1893) 194 We will proceid and minister justice in the said mater..notwithstanding ony continuatioun, diet, or tabilling of uthir summonds.

1549 Breadalbane Coll. Documents & Lett. (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 68 The rasyng of the forsayd summondis of spowillȝe and tabling of the samin befor the lordis of consall.

1786 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1974) XI. 180/1 To lybelling and tabling at the instance of Miss Buchanan against George Black.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Tabling of a Summons. At the institution of the College of Justice (1537), there was appointed a table, in which were set down all summonses, to be called in their turns.

†3. The provision of meals, esp. regularly and for payment; boarding, board. Cf. table v. 2. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplying of meals

tabling1533

table fare1576

1533 L. Wayte Will 20 Aug. in Lisle Lett. (1981) I. 569 Four pounds xvj^d..for the tabeling of the said Eleanor my sister.

a1553 in H. Cole Hen. VIII's Scheme Bishopricks (1838) 117 Borde and tabelyng frely in the late Monasterie to one scole~master.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 142 To spend their time in large tabling and bellie cheere.

a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxxiv. 165 He would have left the matter of his tabling to him.

1658 J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) III. 547 The said William sall undertake the tabling of the masteres and bursares..for this next ensuing year..and that he sall keep three distinct tables, one for the masters, one for the bursars of theologie, and another for the bursars in philosophie.

1725 Postmaster 16 Apr. 6 Lodgings, furnish'd or unfurnish'd, with good Tabling or without.

1780 West's Guide to Lakes (ed. 2) Add. x. 289 As boarding and tabling mean the gratuity of so much per week for victuals eat on boards and tables..hamlet means a lot or parcel of homes.

1830 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 154 (note) You can have a bed and tabling here.

4. The playing of backgammon (cf. table n. 18). Cf. tabler n.¹ Now historical and rare.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > playing

table-playing1547

table-play1549

tabling1553

1553 Ord. Voy. Cathay in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navig. (1886) III. 19 Neither dicing, carding, tabling, nor other divilish games to be frequented.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 190 I require..that..they better wey whether carding, dising, & tabling..be exercises commanded of God for the sabaoth day or no.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 411 Vsurie, carding, tabling and such like.

1619 T. Gataker Of Nature & Use Lots viii. 207 For the Canon-law, it condemneth dicing and tabling no otherwise then the Ciuill-law doth.

1857 Harper's Mag. Nov. 760/1 Neither dicing, carding, tabling, nor other ‘develish devices’ were to be permitted.

1962 M. C. Bradbrook Rise of Common Player i. iii.70 He also attacks the Theatre..complaining of the bawdiness of interludes and coupling them with bear-baiting,..tabling, dancing and drinking.

5. Cloth for making into tablecloths; table linen. Cf. bedding n. 1.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > table linen > [noun]

tabling1604

table linen1625

table napery1762

1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. B1^v French Canuas & lyne of the brodest sort for tabling,..the C. ells..x. pound.

1640 Tables Rates & Duties in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) II. 167 Diaper for tabling.

1696 J. F. Merchant's Ware-house 10 If you agree for the Napkenning, the Tabling is three times the bredth, and three times the price.

1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 347 10281 Yards Diaper Tabling, at 2s.

1770 J. Wimpey Thoughts Several Interesting Subj. 30 From Germany and Silesia, long lawns, dowlasses, silesias, garlix, tabling, hessens, canvas, and many other kinds of linens.

1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 141 Diaper Tabling of the manufacture of Holland.

1899 Fresno (Calif.) Morning Republican 21 Sept. 1/4 (advt.) Fine Linen Tabling, in the prettiest designs ever shown.

1920 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 3 Jan. 6/5 (advt.) 72 Inch Damask Tabling at..6/6 Yd.

1975 Amer. Art Jrnl. 7 83/1 Patterned linens for tabling and well-bleached varieties for clothing came from abroad.

2001 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Dec. 5 Buy a length of wide tabling fabric in a Christmas theme or a more useful white or solid-shade damask.

6. Nautical. A broad hem or (later) a narrow strip of sailcloth stitched at the edge of a sail for reinforcement. Cf. table v. 6.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > material of sails > piece of canvas strengthening sail > at edge

tabling1662

1662 T. Allin Jrnl. 28 Sept. (1939) (modernized text) I. 103 Our topmast..broke just above the cap and under the topgallant cross stays..and rent the tabling of our new mainsail.

1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 60 When the Tabling is cut so very deep, and especially at the Edges, it doth undeniably cause a great Weakness.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Tabling, a sort of broad hem formed on the skirts and bottoms of a ship's sails, to strengthen them in that part which is attached to the bolt-rope.

1847 R. Kipping Elements Sailmaking i. v. 49 The tabling on the foot of the jib..is six inches wide.

1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 11 Tabling, the double part of a sail, close to the bolt-rope.

1938 Mariner's Mirror 24 295 The two tablings at head and foot of sail will take about 12 in.

1996 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 11 Nov. c1 After refining the cutting, reinforcements are sewn on the edges, called hemming or tabling, and patches are sewn to the corners.

†7. Woodworking and Shipbuilding. The action or practice of joining of two pieces of wood together using a coak. Cf. table n. 20c, table v. 5. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > methods of

mortising1589

notching1599

scarfing1644

tabulation1658

mitringc1664

tenoning1678

dovetailing1703

cocking1710

tabling1717

cogging1823

foxtail-wedging1825

mitre dovetailing1825

halving1842

key-dovetailing1847

boxing1874

1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 59 Let the Oak be ⅔ wrought, besides making up the Waste made by Joining and Tabling.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 11 Tabling is the uniting of pieces together in a manner similar to the chain-coak, but broader.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 155 Tabling, letting one piece of timber into another by alternate scores or projections from the middle, so that they cannot be drawn asunder either lengthwise or sidewise.

1869 R. W. Meade Treat. Naval Archit. & Ship-building (ed. 2) 302 A mortise, or sunk coak, is a hollow cut in a piece of timber to fit a tenon or a raised coak on another piece. This is usually known as tabling.

a. The formal submission of a subject or motion for discussion or consideration. Cf table v. 4a(a).Common in English-speaking regions outside the United States.

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1835 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 23 May 136/2 ‘Moving the previous question.’ This signifies, to return to the point at which the business of the meeting stood previous to the tabling of the motion.

1887 Times 9 Feb. 5/2 The Prussian Government means to postpone the tabling of another May Law Amendment Bill, which has already..been drafted.

1977 T. R. H. Davenport S. Afr.: Mod. Hist. 66 They insisted on a three-quarters majority for every law passed, and..three months between the first tabling of a measure and its enactment.

1991 Statute Law Rev. Autumn 94 There is a substantial number of statutes that requires instruments made under them to be tabled in both Houses of the Parliament and the number and variety of instruments subject to tabling has grown very rapidly.

b. Originally and chiefly U.S. The postponement of consideration or discussion of an issue. Cf. table v. 4a(b).

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1859 Dawson's Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Times 14 Apr. Such is not the case, for resolution to do so, was tabled by six to two... The tabling of that resolution was right.

1928 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 42 501 This action on the part of the Council was equivalent to an indefinite tabling of the bill.

1994 D. J. Elazar Amer. Mosaic iv. 129 The tabling of Gallatin's Report on Internal Improvements..marked the end of the forward thrust of the Republicans. From then on, foreign affairs dominated the scene.

†9. Horticulture. An earthen covering for the roots of a hedge, formed using sods removed from the hedge during weeding. Cf. water tabling n. 2. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > ridge on which hedge is

table1664

floor-bank1744

hedge-bank1776

tabling1843

1843 J. Smith Forest Trees 24 Give the hedge what is called a tabling, that is to collect the earth..that has been taken away from the roots,..and place it again in its original position.

10. Tables collectively.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > collectively

tabling1845

1845 Cultivator 2 99 Stretching down the three hundred and fifty yards of tabling.

1892 Gardeners' Chron. 27 Aug. 254/3 The length of tabling filled with products must have reached fully half a mile.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 8/1 Supposing we had to put up tabling, the capacity of the hall would be reduced at once from 3,000 to 800.

1963 Hotel & Catering Rev. Nov. 48 (heading) Tabling to suit your functions.

1994 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Calgary ed.) To experience 130 square metres of tabling laid out with some 3,000 blooms is quite something.

†11. Anatomy. = tablature n. 3. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > tabulate structure of

tablea1400

tablature1615

tablet1826

tabula1842

tabling1891

1891 Cent. Dict. Tabling... 8. In anat., tablature.

Compounds

tabling den n. historical rare a room, house, or club for playing ‘tables’ (table n. 18) or other games.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling

dicing-house1549

carding house1550

gaming house1562

dicing-chamber1571

tabling house1576

game house?1577

macaroni1771

gambling house1772

gambling school1773

gambling club1774

spill-house1778

gambling hall?1781

gambling den1792

gambling booth1804

hell1812

gambling hell1818

Crockford1827

silver hell1835

deadfall1837

casino1851

house1855

tripot1864

skin house1871

bucket-shop1875

gambling joint1885

salle1886

tabling den1886

spoofery1895

salle de jeu1901

strong joint1914

kitchen1924

salle privée1930

spieler1931

1886 H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age 105 The towns were flooded with tippling-houses, bowling-alleys, tabling-dens.

† tabling school n. Obsolete rare a boarding school.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school

charge-house1598

pensiona1652

tabling school1660

boarding school1677

board-school1740

pensionnat1840

residential school1876

pension-school1902

1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole vi. 282 The shutting of children up..into a dark room, and depriving them of a meals meat, or the like (which are used in some Tabling Schools)..cannot be commendably..used in our greater Schooles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tabling
释义	tablingn. Brit. /ˈteɪbl̩ɪŋ/, /ˈteɪblɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈteɪb(ə)lɪŋ/ Forms: see table n. and -ing suffix¹; also 1600s tableinge, 1600s–1700s tableing (Scottish). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: table n., -ing suffix¹; table v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < table n. + -ing suffix¹, and partly < table v. + -ing suffix¹. With sense 1 compare earlier tablement n. 1, table n. 21a. With sense 9 compare water tabling n. 2. With sense 11 compare earlier tablature n. 3. 1. Architecture (chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern)). A horizontal projecting course; spec. a coping stone, a cornice. Also (esp. in early use): the construction of a horizontal projecting course or moulding (see table n. 21a). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > projecting moulding(s) tablementa1400 tabling1410 projecture1563 rib1608 watering table1609 tableting1610 ledge1611 quarter-round1664 cornice1670 bolection1708 dress1726 tablet?1756 dressing1789 1410–11 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. clxviii In ij. bussellis calcis emptis pro dictis fenestris et pro tabelyng de les wykes ibidem, iiij.d. 1426 in L. Morsbach Mittelengl. Originalurkunden (1923) 14 Richard and Adam schal make..a stepel..the wallyng, the tabellyng, and the orbyng sewtly after the stepil of Dunstale. 1589 Burgh Court Bks. St. Andrews 17 Sept. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Tabilling To putt wp sufficient tabling langis the wall abone baythe the saidis inner housis quhairby the ruif thairoff mey be sufficiently valter thicht. 1671 in R. Holmes Pontefract Bk. Entries (1882) 103 Item, for corbells, rigginge and tableinge 1. 13. 4. 1698 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 244 To the slatters lads for dighting the spouts and tabling 5s. 1720 J. Steuart Letter-bk. 128 The outer wall is built to the capston or tableing. 1792 J. Wood Cottages (1806) 9 The summer stone..becomes an abutment..and support to the rest of the tabling. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1039 Tabling, a term used by the Scotch builders to denote the coping of the walls of very common houses. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 21 There was the corbel tabling, showing the old height. 1935 St. Andrews Citizen 13 July 4 The lead under the tabling on the gables. 1977 C. M. Harris Hist. Archit. Sourcebk. 518/1 Tablet,..a coping stone, set flat; also called tabling. 2003 T. Booth & M. Dyson Build your Own Home xv. 157 It may be normal practice in your locality for verges to over-sail the ends of buildings, or alternatively they might have to be capped by stone slabs (termed ‘tabling’). 2. a. The action of setting down or entering something in a table; tabulation. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [noun] > making list > tabular tabling?c1450 tabulating1757 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > diagram > tabular form tableOE tabling?c1450 tablement1551 chart1792 tableau1792 tabulation1837 plan1855 ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 361 To her settyng hygher or lower,..tabulyng and assygnementes, alle owe redyly to obey. 1514 in R. K. Hannay Acts Lords of Council Public Affairs (1932) 15 All materis till have plaice eftir the ordour and taibling quhar it was left of befor. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Rrr4^v Tabling of Fines, is the making of a table for euery countie, where his Maiesties writ runneth, conteining the contents of euery fine, that shall passe in any one terme. 1624 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 30/2 An Act concerning the fees to be taken in cities, boroughs, towns, &c., and the tabling thereof. 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. at Tabling of Fines The Chirographers Fee for every such Tabling is 4 d. 1734 Testimony to Doctr. Curch Scotl. 4 The Brethren who heard the Sermon appeared to be of different Sentiments at the first Tabling of this Affair. 1786 T. Williams Entire New Work 7 It is absolutely necessary in finding the Quantity of the Degrees of Gravity on the Surface of the Spheriod [sic], that a Method of Tabling should be found to give a just Distribution to them. 1955 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. A. 118 104 Probably the most ambitious tabling projects carried out..were the calculation of the Incomplete Gamma Function and the Incomplete Beta Function tables. 1996 Educ. Researcher 25 9/1 We have observed in high school mathematics classrooms..that much of student time is spent on tasks such as tabling and graphing. †b. Scots Law. The action of entering a summons, action, etc., in the roll of matters to be dealt with in a court. Cf. table v. 1b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > [noun] > action of laying something before court presentment1423 sentementc1500 tabling1528 reference1579 referrance1583 1528 in R. Milne Blackfriars of Perth (1893) 194 We will proceid and minister justice in the said mater..notwithstanding ony continuatioun, diet, or tabilling of uthir summonds. 1549 Breadalbane Coll. Documents & Lett. (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 68 The rasyng of the forsayd summondis of spowillȝe and tabling of the samin befor the lordis of consall. 1786 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1974) XI. 180/1 To lybelling and tabling at the instance of Miss Buchanan against George Black. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. Tabling of a Summons. At the institution of the College of Justice (1537), there was appointed a table, in which were set down all summonses, to be called in their turns. †3. The provision of meals, esp. regularly and for payment; boarding, board. Cf. table v. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > supplying food or catering > supplying of meals tabling1533 table fare1576 1533 L. Wayte Will 20 Aug. in Lisle Lett. (1981) I. 569 Four pounds xvj^d..for the tabeling of the said Eleanor my sister. a1553 in H. Cole Hen. VIII's Scheme Bishopricks (1838) 117 Borde and tabelyng frely in the late Monasterie to one scole~master. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 142 To spend their time in large tabling and bellie cheere. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxxiv. 165 He would have left the matter of his tabling to him. 1658 J. Robertson & C. Innes Munimenta Univ. Glasguensis (1854) III. 547 The said William sall undertake the tabling of the masteres and bursares..for this next ensuing year..and that he sall keep three distinct tables, one for the masters, one for the bursars of theologie, and another for the bursars in philosophie. 1725 Postmaster 16 Apr. 6 Lodgings, furnish'd or unfurnish'd, with good Tabling or without. 1780 West's Guide to Lakes (ed. 2) Add. x. 289 As boarding and tabling mean the gratuity of so much per week for victuals eat on boards and tables..hamlet means a lot or parcel of homes. 1830 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 154 (note) You can have a bed and tabling here. 4. The playing of backgammon (cf. table n. 18). Cf. tabler n.¹ Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > playing table-playing1547 table-play1549 tabling1553 1553 Ord. Voy. Cathay in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navig. (1886) III. 19 Neither dicing, carding, tabling, nor other divilish games to be frequented. 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 190 I require..that..they better wey whether carding, dising, & tabling..be exercises commanded of God for the sabaoth day or no. 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 411 Vsurie, carding, tabling and such like. 1619 T. Gataker Of Nature & Use Lots viii. 207 For the Canon-law, it condemneth dicing and tabling no otherwise then the Ciuill-law doth. 1857 Harper's Mag. Nov. 760/1 Neither dicing, carding, tabling, nor other ‘develish devices’ were to be permitted. 1962 M. C. Bradbrook Rise of Common Player i. iii.70 He also attacks the Theatre..complaining of the bawdiness of interludes and coupling them with bear-baiting,..tabling, dancing and drinking. 5. Cloth for making into tablecloths; table linen. Cf. bedding n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > table linen > [noun] tabling1604 table linen1625 table napery1762 1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. B1^v French Canuas & lyne of the brodest sort for tabling,..the C. ells..x. pound. 1640 Tables Rates & Duties in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) II. 167 Diaper for tabling. 1696 J. F. Merchant's Ware-house 10 If you agree for the Napkenning, the Tabling is three times the bredth, and three times the price. 1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 347 10281 Yards Diaper Tabling, at 2s. 1770 J. Wimpey Thoughts Several Interesting Subj. 30 From Germany and Silesia, long lawns, dowlasses, silesias, garlix, tabling, hessens, canvas, and many other kinds of linens. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 141 Diaper Tabling of the manufacture of Holland. 1899 Fresno (Calif.) Morning Republican 21 Sept. 1/4 (advt.) Fine Linen Tabling, in the prettiest designs ever shown. 1920 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 3 Jan. 6/5 (advt.) 72 Inch Damask Tabling at..6/6 Yd. 1975 Amer. Art Jrnl. 7 83/1 Patterned linens for tabling and well-bleached varieties for clothing came from abroad. 2001 Toronto Star (Nexis) 20 Dec. 5 Buy a length of wide tabling fabric in a Christmas theme or a more useful white or solid-shade damask. 6. Nautical. A broad hem or (later) a narrow strip of sailcloth stitched at the edge of a sail for reinforcement. Cf. table v. 6. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > material of sails > piece of canvas strengthening sail > at edge tabling1662 1662 T. Allin Jrnl. 28 Sept. (1939) (modernized text) I. 103 Our topmast..broke just above the cap and under the topgallant cross stays..and rent the tabling of our new mainsail. 1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 60 When the Tabling is cut so very deep, and especially at the Edges, it doth undeniably cause a great Weakness. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Tabling, a sort of broad hem formed on the skirts and bottoms of a ship's sails, to strengthen them in that part which is attached to the bolt-rope. 1847 R. Kipping Elements Sailmaking i. v. 49 The tabling on the foot of the jib..is six inches wide. 1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 11 Tabling, the double part of a sail, close to the bolt-rope. 1938 Mariner's Mirror 24 295 The two tablings at head and foot of sail will take about 12 in. 1996 Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Nexis) 11 Nov. c1 After refining the cutting, reinforcements are sewn on the edges, called hemming or tabling, and patches are sewn to the corners. †7. Woodworking and Shipbuilding. The action or practice of joining of two pieces of wood together using a coak. Cf. table n. 20c, table v. 5. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > methods of mortising1589 notching1599 scarfing1644 tabulation1658 mitringc1664 tenoning1678 dovetailing1703 cocking1710 tabling1717 cogging1823 foxtail-wedging1825 mitre dovetailing1825 halving1842 key-dovetailing1847 boxing1874 1717 W. Sutherland Britain's Glory: Ship-building Unvail'd 59 Let the Oak be ⅔ wrought, besides making up the Waste made by Joining and Tabling. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 11 Tabling is the uniting of pieces together in a manner similar to the chain-coak, but broader. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 155 Tabling, letting one piece of timber into another by alternate scores or projections from the middle, so that they cannot be drawn asunder either lengthwise or sidewise. 1869 R. W. Meade Treat. Naval Archit. & Ship-building (ed. 2) 302 A mortise, or sunk coak, is a hollow cut in a piece of timber to fit a tenon or a raised coak on another piece. This is usually known as tabling. 8. a. The formal submission of a subject or motion for discussion or consideration. Cf table v. 4a(a).Common in English-speaking regions outside the United States. ΚΠ 1835 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 23 May 136/2 ‘Moving the previous question.’ This signifies, to return to the point at which the business of the meeting stood previous to the tabling of the motion. 1887 Times 9 Feb. 5/2 The Prussian Government means to postpone the tabling of another May Law Amendment Bill, which has already..been drafted. 1977 T. R. H. Davenport S. Afr.: Mod. Hist. 66 They insisted on a three-quarters majority for every law passed, and..three months between the first tabling of a measure and its enactment. 1991 Statute Law Rev. Autumn 94 There is a substantial number of statutes that requires instruments made under them to be tabled in both Houses of the Parliament and the number and variety of instruments subject to tabling has grown very rapidly. b. Originally and chiefly U.S. The postponement of consideration or discussion of an issue. Cf. table v. 4a(b). ΚΠ 1859 Dawson's Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Times 14 Apr. Such is not the case, for resolution to do so, was tabled by six to two... The tabling of that resolution was right. 1928 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 42 501 This action on the part of the Council was equivalent to an indefinite tabling of the bill. 1994 D. J. Elazar Amer. Mosaic iv. 129 The tabling of Gallatin's Report on Internal Improvements..marked the end of the forward thrust of the Republicans. From then on, foreign affairs dominated the scene. †9. Horticulture. An earthen covering for the roots of a hedge, formed using sods removed from the hedge during weeding. Cf. water tabling n. 2. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > hedging > [noun] > ridge on which hedge is table1664 floor-bank1744 hedge-bank1776 tabling1843 1843 J. Smith Forest Trees 24 Give the hedge what is called a tabling, that is to collect the earth..that has been taken away from the roots,..and place it again in its original position. 10. Tables collectively. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > collectively tabling1845 1845 Cultivator 2 99 Stretching down the three hundred and fifty yards of tabling. 1892 Gardeners' Chron. 27 Aug. 254/3 The length of tabling filled with products must have reached fully half a mile. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 8/1 Supposing we had to put up tabling, the capacity of the hall would be reduced at once from 3,000 to 800. 1963 Hotel & Catering Rev. Nov. 48 (heading) Tabling to suit your functions. 1994 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 24 Sept. (Calgary ed.) To experience 130 square metres of tabling laid out with some 3,000 blooms is quite something. †11. Anatomy. = tablature n. 3. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > tabulate structure of tablea1400 tablature1615 tablet1826 tabula1842 tabling1891 1891 Cent. Dict. Tabling... 8. In anat., tablature. Compounds tabling den n. historical rare a room, house, or club for playing ‘tables’ (table n. 18) or other games. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling dicing-house1549 carding house1550 gaming house1562 dicing-chamber1571 tabling house1576 game house?1577 macaroni1771 gambling house1772 gambling school1773 gambling club1774 spill-house1778 gambling hall?1781 gambling den1792 gambling booth1804 hell1812 gambling hell1818 Crockford1827 silver hell1835 deadfall1837 casino1851 house1855 tripot1864 skin house1871 bucket-shop1875 gambling joint1885 salle1886 tabling den1886 spoofery1895 salle de jeu1901 strong joint1914 kitchen1924 salle privée1930 spieler1931 1886 H. Hall Society in Elizabethan Age 105 The towns were flooded with tippling-houses, bowling-alleys, tabling-dens. † tabling school n. Obsolete rare a boarding school. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > boarding school charge-house1598 pensiona1652 tabling school1660 boarding school1677 board-school1740 pensionnat1840 residential school1876 pension-school1902 1660 C. Hoole New Discov. Old Art of teaching Schoole vi. 282 The shutting of children up..into a dark room, and depriving them of a meals meat, or the like (which are used in some Tabling Schools)..cannot be commendably..used in our greater Schooles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1410
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