What is "tabling"

Table \Ta"ble\ (t[=a]"b'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tabled (t[=a]"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Tabling (t[=a]"bling).]

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. [Obs.]

   Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation.
   --Bacon.

3. To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.]
   --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 broad hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.

Tabling \Ta"bling\, n.

1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.

2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.

3. (Naut.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
   --Totten.

4. Board; support. [Obs.]
   --Trence in English (1614).

5. Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. [Obs.]

   Tabling house, a gambling house. [Obs.]
   --Northbrooke.

n. 1 A forming into tables; a setting down in order. 2 (context carpentry English) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. 3 (context nautical English) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. 4 (context obsolete English) board; support vb. (present participle of table English)