Obs. [f. prec. (sense 2) + HOUSE sb.] 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. 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!
