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Tabill dyamont, n. Also: table-, -el-, -lle-, tebil- and -diamont, -diamond, -dyamound, -dayamont, -deamond. [Late ME and e.m.E. table dyamond (1470), table diamaunt (1519).] A diamond cut with a flat upper surface. 1542 Inv. Wardrobe 66.
Twa ringis with twa greit tabill dyamonttis … ane uther ring with ane meyn tabill dyamont … twa ringis with tabill dyamonttis, ane of thame nukit 1582 Treas. Acc. MS 117b.
Table dyamont 1601 Reg. Privy C. VI 328.
Ane ring sett with a pointit diamond and four table diamondis 1602 4th Rep. Hist. MSS App. 526/2.
Ane tablet with the piktur of ane agget inammallit with reid green and quhyt, with four tablle diamontes and ane knoip of sevin perllis 1610 Edinb. Test. XLVI 174b.
Thrie fyne ringis ane fyne grit tabel dyamound ane pointtit dyamound and my awin pointit dyamound with the turcas in it 1644 11th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. vi 57.
Ane tebil dayamont 1652 Montgomery Mem. 319.
Gold buttons, with a table deamond on the top of each of them