tableman

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A workman in a rolling-mill who has charge of the operation of the feeding-table by which the piece is delivered or fed to the rolls; or, one who works in connection with such a table.
2. n. One of the men or pieces used in such games as draughts, chess, or backgammon.
3. n. A player at one of these games; a dicer; a gamester: in the quotation said to mean ‘gaily appareled servants waiting at table.’

Wiktionary

1. n. rare Any of the pieces used to play the game of tables, backgammon or draughts
2. n. rare A person sitting at the same table

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. rare A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See table, n., 10.