"tabling"

Definition:

• A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
• The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
• A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
• Board; support.
• Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10.

Web Definitions for tabling

• The strengthening pieces of canvas sewn to the edges of sails where the roping goes on.
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• Trimming either the top (after the bottom hem is in) or the bottom (after the heading is in) of the draperies, to make them perfectly square.
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