Definition of "tabling"

tabling

verb
1. present participle and gerund of table
noun
plural tablings
1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
2. (carpentry) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
3. (nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail.
  Quotations
  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. (US) A setting-aside of a topic from discussion.
  Quotations
  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. (UK) The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
6. (obsolete) board; support
  Quotations
  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
7. (programming) 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.