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ˈwater-ˌtabling
[f. prec. + -ing1.]
1. Arch. Water-tables collectively; a line of water-tables.
1578Churchw. Acc. Minchinhampton in Archaeologia (1853) XXXV. 431 For the water tablinge of Anslowes chapele and the bynche of the porche, xvj s. iiij d. 1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 32, 120 feet of water-tabling. 1893Reliquary Jan. 14 The east and west walls were surmounted by gables. These seem to have been covered with a water-tabling. 1900Archæol. æliana XXII. 87 The corbels on which rests the water-tabling.
2. The action or process of renovating with sods the side of a ditch where it has become worn away below the roots of a hedge.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 433 The hedger now resumes his work of water-tabling and scouring ditches. Ibid. 562 Of switching, pruning, and water-tabling thorn-hedges. |