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To Table

  1. To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. [from 15th c.]
  2. (now rare) To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. [from 15th c.](Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
  3. (obsolete) To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. [17th–19th c.]
  4. (non-US) To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. [from 17th c.]
  5. (chiefly US) To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). [from 19th c.]
  6. (carpentry, obsolete) To join (pieces of timber) together using coaks. [18th–19th c.]
  7. To put on a table. [from 19th c.]
  8. (nautical) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope.