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1428 in J. B. Heath Some Acct. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1869) 5 The walle atte seid west gabilende was maad x fote in heyghte above the watir table.

1459 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 309 iij fotes..from the gronde leuell to the water tabil... And the said water tabell..alle of freeston.

1541 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1860) 3 161 Fra the sollis of the said queir duris to the vuer pairt of the walter tabill vnder the thak thairof.

1545–6 in J. R. Boyle Early Hist. Town & Port of Hedon (1895) App. p. cxxxiii Item, for layinge the watter tabyll above the counsell cham^r.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxiij From the firste water table to the raysyng or resun pieces.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 68 Robbing the Eyes of their natural Pent-house or Water-table, they expose them bare to imbrications.

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 89 For cleansing and setting again old work, as window stuff, grostable, watertable, cornish, quines.

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 297 The Walls of such Edifices ought to be from the Foundation to the first Water-table, three heading course of Brick,..and at every Story a Water-table, or taking in on the inside for the Summers, Girders or Joysts to rest upon.

1753 W. Franklin Let. 12 July (1962) V. 5 It made a small crack in the Wall down to a Ledge (or single Row of Bricks projecting about 3 Inches from the Wall, which the Bricklayers term a Water Table or Water Fall).

1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §1882 The massive buttress, with its deep weatherings, or water-tables between each graduation or stage of the height.

1878 R. B. MacVittie Details Restoration Christ Church Cathedral Dublin 66 Weathered in the depth of the buttresses by nine courses of Water-tables.

1948 J. R. Dalzell & G. Townsend Masonry Simplified I. vii. 268 Soldier courses are used mainly as a water table around a building at the level of the first floor.

1987 S. Adams Arts & Crafts Movement v. 88/2 The use of low overhanging roofs and water tables that extend well beyond the walls of the house.

2004 R. Weinstein in Beach Homes 114/2 Using screws enabled us to dry-fit the myriad pieces of cornice, columns, water tables and scotia.

1664 S. Blake Compl. Gardeners Pract. 94 To set walks with it [sc. chamomile], and of each side of the walk a water table laid with white sand which is a very pleasant sight.

1712 J. Mortimer Art of Husbandry: Pt. II 160 A Water-Table also on each side of the Walk is very good to drain your Walks.

1739 P. Miller Gardeners Kalendar (ed. 5) 61 The water-tables on the sides of the walks should be dug and rak'd, that they may be clear from weeds and mos.

1809 W. Mavor Gen. View Agric. Berks. 422 The..roads..are not sufficiently raised in the middle, the water tables are neither regularly made nor with proper outlets towards the ditches.

c1830 Pract. Treat. Roads 9 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III. Outlets from the watertables into the ditches cannot be seen in too many places.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Water-table,..a small hollow made across a road to carry off surplus water.

1888 App. Jrnls. House of Representatives N.Z. (2nd Sess. 10th Parl.) II. D.–1. 37 On this road fords and stream-crossings have been repaired and improved, the second growth of trees and shrubs cleared, water-tables and drains cleared.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. 4/1 Now that the local authorities have permitted footpaths by the roadside and water-tables to be obliterated.

1927 Irish Times 18 Nov. 10/5 He went on through Charlemont and found O'Brien lying in a watertable outside the village just beyond the Canal Bridge.

1982 Indian Forester Sept. 615 Soil conservation measures such as..catchwater drains, side gutters, cross drainage works and water tables, on forest roads, are being undertaken.

2001 A. Major Kentish as she wus Spoke Water-table, small ditch by a lane side to drain it of surface water.

2001 L. Murray in Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 Oct. a6 The hundreds of points at which Aboriginal and rural usages overlap: hunt meaning to send someone away..watertable for gutter, quiet for tame [etc.].

1821 J. Fincham Introd. Outl. Pract. Ship-Building 262 The Munions are the pieces that pass between the lights and form the side of them; their upper ends let into the stools, and to the lower gallery, rest upon the water table that is brought upon the upper part of the rim rail.

1884 J. Stormonth Dict. Eng. Lang. 1150/2 Water-tables, in a ship, the sills of the windows in the stern.

1890 Funk's Standard Dict. Water-table, a horizontal board with beveled top, running underneath the windows, the entire length of a [railway] car.

1916 Railway Rev. 7 Oct. 480/2 The pier panel plates and the outer legs of the channel shaped water tables for the windows, assume a common plane with the outside plates.

1823 E. James Acct. Exped. Rocky Mts. III. xi. 201 The hills usually rise..one thousand feet above the water-tables of the principal rivers.

1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 567/1 At varying distances from the surface..there exists a great subterranean lake or sea, known as the ground-water or water-table.

1933 Geogr. Jrnl. 81 158 If the water table approaches the surface evaporation takes place, causing a concentration of the salts carried down.

1946 Ecology 27 26/2 Intermittent rainfall and fine weather cause the water table to fluctuate.

1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. i. 9 The upper limit of this [saturated zone] is often called the water-table. Perhaps water-line..is a better term since table implies flatness; in fact the water-line usually follows the surface contours and is rarely flat.

2005 Permaculture Mag. Winter 42/3 The slumping made the rest of the field higher relative to the water table.

1856 U.S. Patent 14,408 1/1 F represents the furnace; B, the grate-bars... T T′ T T′, &c., represent the tubes through which the smoke and heat pass. H represents the smoke-chamber. I represents a front water-space; K, a water-bottom; L L′, a water table or bottom communicating with the water-bottom K by the arch or concave water-space a b c.

1892 Engineer 2 Apr. 73/1 The ordinary return tubular boiler is provided with water table extending front and rear, which are connected with each other by water tubes.

1910 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 11 Jan. 482/1 A superposed steam-boiler having a water-table overhanging the fire-pot on all sides.