water-tablev.
/ˈwɔːtəˌteɪbl/, U.S. /ˈwɔdərˌteɪb(ə)l/, /ˈwɑdərˌteɪb(ə)l/ Now historical and rare.
transitive. To provide (a building, a road, etc.) with water tables for draining off water. Cf. water table n. 1, 2.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > street > lay out as a street [verb (transitive)] > provide (a street) with a channel or gutter
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channel1848
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > provide with wall(s) > provide with coping, water-table, or throat
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1797 J. Home Rectified Rep. Berwickshire Agric. ii. 82 The roots are moulded, or water-tabled from time to time, as they become bare, with the scourings from the ditch and sides.
1822 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 78/2 The first step is, to order every person to scour out his ditches by the road side; the width of the road is then set out by the surveyor, which is water-tabled by the labourers making cuts therefrom into the ditches.
1860 Jurist 1054/2 The costs..of kerbing and water-tabling the remaining portion of the said streets.
1899 3rd Ann. Rep. Provinc. Instructor Road-making Ont. 1898 31 This money is entirely expended in gravelling, i.e., hauling gravel and metal from pits..and dumping upon such portion of the roads as are graded and water-tabled to receive the same.
1914 W. R. Wiggen Esh Leaves 118 All the gables were water tabled and had boldly projecting stone corbels.
1955 J. J. Birch Pioneering Church of Mohawk Valley xv. 118 The tower, with its one hundred seventy foot spire, formed the central motive. It was generously banded and water-tabled with red sandstone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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