tables

noun — 3 senses

tables

noun

/ˈteɪbl̩z/

1

Backgammon.

  • Hervor proceeded to the court of King Gudmund, and there one day as she was playing at tables with the king, one of the servants chanced to take up and draw Tirfing, which shone like a sunbeam.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 124:
2

Backgammon, Games The halves or quarters of a backgammon board.

3

Any backgammon-like board game, played on a board with two rows of 12 vertical markings called "points".

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