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Webster 1913 Edition
Water table
Wa′ter ta′ble
.1.
(Arch.)
A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, – generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see , 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall.
Table
, Noun.