Word Direct Answers

What does "table" mean?

Table: To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture. [Obs.] Tabled and pictured in the chambers of meditation. Bacon.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To supply with food; to feed. [Obs.] Milton.
  2. 3.(Carp.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
  3. 4.To lay or place on a table, as money. Carlyle.
  4. 5.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.
  5. 6.To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
  6. 7.(Naut.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
  7. 8.To live at the table of another; to board; to eat. [Obs.] "He . . . was driven from the society of men to table with the beasts." South.

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