† tabling housen.
Obsolete.
A public house for playing ‘tables’ (table n. 18) or other games; a gambling house. The sense ‘boarding house’, found in some modern dictionaries (apparently based on quot. 1859), is not definitely supported by any quot.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1576 G. Whetstone Ortchard of Repentance 50 in Rocke of Regard Then trudge they to some tabling house, Their hunger for to slake.
?1577 J. Northbrooke Spiritus est Vicarius Christi: Treat. Dicing 98 They alledge that there is none but common gamehouses and tabling houses that are condemned, and not the playing sometimes in their owne priuate houses.
1605 Play Stucley in R. Simpson School of Shakspere (1878) I. 165 Gods me, my masters father! Now my master He's at the Tabling-house too!
1617 J. Davies Wits Bedlam sig. E4v Tell Hornsby (that doth keep a Tabling-house) His Wife too fast doth bear men in his Tables.
1859 J. O. Halliwell & T. Wright Nares's Gloss. (new ed.) II. 861/2 A tabling house perhaps means a boarding house.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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