† ˈtabling-house Obs.
[f. prec. (sense 2) + house n.]
A house of resort for playing ‘tables’ or other games; a gambling-house.
The sense ‘boarding-house’, alleged in mod. Dicts. (app. founded on Halliwell's casual remark in Nares (ed. 1859) on quot. 1577), is not certainly supported by any quot.
| 1577 J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 128 They alledge, that there is none but common gamehouses and tabling houses that are condemned, and not the playing sometimes in their own private houses. 1598 Florio Ital. Dict., Ridotto,..a gaming or tabling house. 1605 Play Stucley in Simpson Sch. Shaks. (1878) I. 165 Gods me, my masters father! Now my master He's at the Tabling-house too! |