tabling
verb
- 1
To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.
“to table fines”
- 2
To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
- 3
To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.
- 4
(non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda.
- 5
To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something).
“The legislature tabled the amendment, so they will not be discussing it until later.”
- 6
To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.
- 7
To put on a table.
- 8
To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.
noun
- 1
A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
- 2
The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
- 3
A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
- 4
Board; support
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