[f. prec. + -ING1.]
1. Arch. Water-tables collectively; a line of water-tables.
1578. Churchw. Acc. Minchinhampton, in Archaeologia (1853), XXXV. 431. For the water tablinge of Anslowes chapele and the bynche of the porche, xvj s. iiij d.
1799. A. Young, Agric. Lincoln, 32. 120 feet of water-tabling.
1893. Reliquary, Jan., 14. The east and west walls were surmounted by gables. These seem to have been covered with a water-tabling.
1900. Archæol. 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.
1844. H. 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.
