Ta′ble.
1. (Furniture.) A piece of furniture on which viands or work is placed, so as to be readily reached by persons sitting adjacent thereto. Tables are known by size, shape, construction, material, purpose, etc., as,
| Card, | Dining-room, | Self-waiting, |
| Carving, | Extension, | Steam-heated, |
| Center, | Folding, | Toilet, |
| Chess, | Ironing, | Work, etc. |
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| Egyptian table (from Wilkinson). |
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| Egyptian table (from salt's collection). |
2. (Glass-making.) a. The flat disk of crown glass which is made from a bulb on the end of a blowing-tube, transferred to a ponty, gradually and finally flashed into a disk by rotating in front of a flashing-furnace (which see). b. The flat plate with a raised rim, on which plate glass is formed. See Fig. 1181. 3. A chess or backgammon board.
4. (Diamond-cutting.) a. A form of diamondcutting. The top of the stone is ground flat with a corresponding flat bottom of less area, with its four upper and lower facets cut parallel to each other. See diamond-cutting. b. The upper flat surface of a brilliant cut diamond; the zone facets around it are known as the bizet. The lower flat face, the collel, which converts the culasse into a truncated pyramid, is 1/5 of the size of the table, and parallel therewith. See brilliant.
5. (Architecture.) a. A smooth, simple member or ornament of various forms, but most usually in that of a long square. b. Table or tablet moldings, horizontal bands or moldings, such as base-moldings, strings, cornices, etc. 6. A tablet. Formerly a board, slab, or leaf to contain writing. The term is nearly obsolete as a writing surface, but is still useful as indicating lists and calculations, generally in lines and columns.
7. (Weaving.) The board or bar in a draw-loom to which the tails of the harness are attached.
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| Shaping-machine (N. Y. Steam-engine Co.), with two tables. |
8. (Machinery.) The part on which work is placed to be operated upon; the term bed is also used to designate the large flat table of a planing-machine. Shaping-machines have single or double beds, the latter being lighter than one continuous one of equal reach, besides having an additional adjustability, as shown in the figure, where an object of irregular shape may be supported to present an accurately horizontal surface while it rests upon two tables of varying hights. The shaping-machine shown in Fig. 6150 has a cutting-bar with 16 inches stroke, and the head has a traverse of 6 feet, with quick return-motion. The stroke is adjustable to anything less than 16 inches. It has two tables for holding work, both of which are movable up and down by screw and handwheel, and longitudinally by means of rack and pinion, with ratchet-lever. [2478]
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| Table-diamond. |
