1) Putting aside temporarily 
Hem around a sail.
• (n.) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. • (n.) Board; support. • (n.) Act of playing at tables. See Table, n., 10. • (n.) A forming into tables; a setting down in order. • (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding.
The term used when roof verges are capped with stone slabs.
a flat coping usually refers to stones at the wallhead or gable of a building as opposed to a freestanding wall. 
Ta'bling noun 1. A forming into tables; a setting down in order. 2. (Carp.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding. 3. (Nautical) A broad hem on the edge of a sail. Totten. 4. Board; support....
Tabling is a broad hem on the edge of a sail.
The term used when roof verges are capped with stone slabs.