tabling

Noun

tabling (plural tablings)

1. A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.

   Synonyms:

   tabulation

2. The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
3. A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
   • On the luffs and after leaches of jibs the tabling ought to be 3 inches, on the foot 1 inches1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails
4. (US) A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
   • The Woodstock Town Board dropped the controversial anti-discrimination ordinance after a meeting marked by a series of tablings and withdrawals of various resolutions.1978 April 22, “Woodstock, NY Rights Ordinance Killed in Rules Stalemate”, in Gay Community News, page 6
5. (UK) The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
6. (metonymically) Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
7. (obsolete) board; support
   • My daughter hath there already now of me ten poundes, which I account to be given for her tabling : after this ten poundes will follow another, for her apparel1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English
8. The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same subproblem arises again.