intransitive. To present or bring out food or drink to people who are dining, e.g. customers in a restaurant or guests at a formal dinner or…

transitive. To place (food) on the table as a sewer does; intransitive to act as a sewer.

intransitive. To cause liquid to flow from a vessel, esp. when serving food or drink; (now chiefly) to fill cups with tea from a pot. Frequently with…

To attend as or in the manner of a servant to the personal requirements of; to minister to the comfort of. †Also in phrases, to wait on the cup, the…

intransitive. To act as sewer at a meal.

To serve as an attendant at table; to hand food and drink to persons at a meal. to wait at table (cf. to wait on or upon —— 10 at phrasal verbs), †t…

to wait up: to be in attendance at the head of the table. Obsolete.

transitive. To carry or send (a dish, a meal, etc.) from kitchen to table; to present (food or drink) to a person or group as part of a meal. Obsolete…

transferred. To serve, distribute (food) at a meal.

quasi-trans. to wait (the) table = to wait at table. Scottish.

In various colloquial or slang uses. To hand round, distribute, dispense. Also in to sling hash, to wait at tables. U.S. Cf. hash slinger n. at hash…

to be mother: to serve out food or drink; spec. to be the person who pours the tea.