Dictionary entry

Table (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ta″ble (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Tableed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Tableing (?).] 1. To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.

2. To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.

Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.

3. To supply with food; to feed. Milton.

4. (Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.

5. To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.

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.

7. To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.

8. (Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.