gaming table

American  

noun

1. a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.

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Etymology

Origin of gaming table

First recorded in 1590–1600

Example Sentences

Their purpose, rather, was to reveal at the safety of a gaming table “the difficulty of conducting war” — and its “horrendous costs.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 5, 2022

People who were in the gaming table area during the evening of Oct.

From Washington Times • Oct. 25, 2020

In Elko, Nev., Frank photographed the play at a gaming table: ‘‘It’s very seldom you get a picture of people gambling.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2015

There’s also a 23-year-old woman putting herself through Butler University with the proceeds from her poker winnings; her plotline culminates—as all poker stories must—with a climactic showdown at the gaming table.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2012

Mrs. Platt’s circumnavigation of her supper table completed, she began to revolve around the parlor, the plates being lain on the mantelpiece or the gaming table.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson