Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.