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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a table for playing cards (as in a casino)
2: a small light table with folding legs; can be folded for storage

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1711 a table designed for playing cards; especially a square table with folding legs

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

(c) (Mach.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc. (d) (Palmistry) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand. Mistress of a fairer table Hath not history for fable. --B. Jonson. 5. An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board, or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing, or working. We may again Give to our tables meat. --Shak. The nymph the table spread. --Pope. 6. Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table. 7. The company assembled round a table. I drink the general joy of the whole table. --Shak. 8. (Anat.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diplo["e], in the walls of the cranium. 9. (Arch.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; esp., a band of stone, or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table. 10. (Games) (a) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played. (b) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table. (c) pl. The games of backgammon and of draughts. [Obs.] --Chaucer. This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice. --Shak. 11. (Glass Manuf.) A circular plate of crown glass. A circular plate or table of about five feet diameter weighs on an average nine pounds. --Ure. 12. (Jewelry) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles. 13. (Persp.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane. 14. (Mach.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened. Bench table, Card table, Communion table, Lord's table, etc. See under Bench, Card, etc. Raised table (Arch. & Sculp.), a raised or projecting member of a flat surface, large in proportion to the projection, and usually rectangular, -- especially intended to receive an inscription or the like. Roller table (Horology), a flat disk on the arbor of the balance of a watch, holding the jewel which rolls in and out of the fork at the end of the lever of the escapement. Round table. See Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. Table anvil, a small anvil to be fastened to a table for use in making slight repairs. Table base. (Arch.) Same as Water table. Table bed, a bed in the form of a table. Table beer, beer for table, or for common use; small beer. Table bell, a small bell to be used at table for calling servants. Table cover, a cloth for covering a table, especially at other than mealtimes. Table diamond, a thin diamond cut with a flat upper surface. Table linen, linen tablecloth, napkins, and the like. Table money (Mil. or Naut.), an allowance sometimes made to officers over and above their pay, for table expenses. Table rent (O. Eng. Law), rent paid to a bishop or religious, reserved or appropriated to his table or housekeeping. --Burrill. Table shore (Naut.), a low, level shore. Table talk, conversation at table, or at meals. Table talker, one who talks at table. Table tipping, Table turning, certain movements of tables, etc., attributed by some to the agency of departed spirits, and by others to the development of latent vital or spriritual forces, but more commonly ascribed to the muscular force of persons in connection with the objects moved, or to physical force applied otherwise. Tables of a girder or chord (Engin.), the upper and lower horizontal members. To lay on the table, in parliamentary usage, to lay, as a report, motion, etc., on the table of the presiding officer, -- that is, to postpone the consideration of, by a vote. To serve tables (Script.), to provide for the poor, or to distribute provisions for their wants. --Acts vi. 2. To turn the tables, to change the condition or fortune of contending parties; -- a metaphorical expression taken from the vicissitudes of fortune in gaming. Twelve tables (Rom. Antiq.), a celebrated body of Roman laws, framed by decemvirs appointed 450 years before Christ, on the return of deputies or commissioners who had been sent to Greece to examine into foreign laws and institutions. They consisted partly of laws transcribed from the institutions of other nations, partly of such as were altered and accommodated to the manners of the Romans, partly of new provisions, and mainly, perhaps, of laws and usages under their ancient kings. --Burrill.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Card Card, n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. ? a leaf of paper. Cf. Chart.] 1. A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards. Our first cards were to Carabas House. --Thackeray. 2. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair. 3. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. --Shak. 4. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard. 5. An indicator card. See under Indicator. Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. Card basket (a) A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers. (b) A basket made of cardboard. Card catalogue. See Catalogue. Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card. Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over. On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme. Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards. To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking. To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly. To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes. To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card. Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also card-table(card tables) A card table is a small light table which can be folded up and which is sometimes used for playing games of cards on. N-COUNT