tabling

verb

  1. 1

    To tabulate; to put into a table or grid.

    to table fines
  2. 2

    To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.

  3. 3

    To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict.

  4. 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. 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. 6

    To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks.

  7. 7

    To put on a table.

  8. 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. 1

    A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

  2. 2

    The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.

  3. 3

    A broad hem on the edge of a sail.

  4. 4

    Board; support

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