A Topical Dictionary: Search for tables

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English

Pronunciation

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Noun

tables

A board game.
A class of board game which include trictrac, irish and backgammon.
The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.

Translations

German: Tische

Portuguese: mesas
Spanish: mesas#Spanish|mesas , tablas
Swedish: tabeller (1)

Verb

tables

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French

Noun

fr:tables it:tables ta:tables vi:tables

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English backgammon \back"gam`mon\, n. [Origin unknown; perhaps fr. Dan.
bakke tray + E. game; or very likely the first part is from
E. back, adv., and the game is so called because the men are
often set back.]
A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a
"board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points".
Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of
which from point to point are determined by throwing dice.
Formerly called tables.
[1913 Webster]

backgammon board, a board for playing backgammon, often
made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together,
each tray containing two "tables".
[1913 Webster]

Tables (Mark 7:4) means banqueting-couches or benches, on which the Jews reclined when at meals. This custom, along with the use of raised tables like ours, was introduced among the Jews after the Captivity. Before this they had, properly speaking, no table. That which served the purpose was a skin or piece of leather spread out on the carpeted floor. Sometimes a stool was placed in the middle of this skin. (See ABRAHAM'S {BOSOM}; {BANQUET}; {MEALS}.)