tabling

noun

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

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.”

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 apparel”

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.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of table