A ruby cut with a large fat upper surface surrounded by small facets: cf. TABLE sb. 18, TABLE DIAMOND.
1529. in Wills Doct. Com. (Camden), 18. One ring with a table rubye.
1660. F. Brooke, trans. Le Blanc’s Trav., 285. I gave a fair table Rubie to my Sister.
1901. Westm. Gaz., 31 Dec., 1/1. The Coronation ring … will probably take the form of a plain gold ring set with a large table ruby on which is engraved a plain or St. George’s Cross.
