tabling

plural tablings

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

   Synonyms: tabulation

2. businessThe letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
3. nauticalA 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 inches

   1867, James Grange, Hints to young shipmasters in drafting and cutting ships' rigging and sails

4. USA 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. UKThe introduction of a topic to a discussion.
6. metonymicallyRepresenting a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
7. obsoleteboard; 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 apparel

   1614, Richard Bernard, Terence in English

8. computingThe 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.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of table