tabling

noun8

1. •
   (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. — 1978
2. •
   (UK) The introduction of a topic to a discussion.
3. •
   Representing a company or organization (at an exposition, fair, etc.), usually at a booth or display.
4. •
   A forming into (graphic) tables; a display in tabular form.
5. •
   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.
6. •
   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 — 1867
7. •
   The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding; a crude form of dovetailing.
8. •
   (no longer used) 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 — 1614