TABLE
verb
Definitions
- 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. 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. To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
Added: October 09, 2025
Updated: October 09, 2025