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.
Since January 1 1993, the Commission has fought shy of tabling new legislation; and high-profile European Court cases pursuing sluggish member states have been kept to a minimum.
The opposition Labor Party compounded the political turmoil by tabling a motion of no confidence in the government.
The rift, the staff members said, has been aggravated by the tabling of a major insider-trading investigation.
"By tabling this proposal, we are taking a step toward ending the military division of Europe," Baker said.
Indeed, agency staff members say Ms. Warwick's unusual tabling of an "action memo" recommending prosecution in a major insider-trading investigation has sparked some of the current dissension.