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noun

Tailing n.

(Arch.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

(Surg.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).

Sexual intercourse. (Obs.)

pl. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

pl. (Mining) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.

(Elec.) A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

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Etymology of 'Tailing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tailing" Quotes from Famous Books

... to tell me!" Pennold grumbled. "I'll write him first and then wait a few days, and if anyone's tailing me in the meantime, they'll have ...

— The Crevice • William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander

... was very quiet one afternoon, most of the hands being out with the tailing mob; and Lady Bridget, in a restless mood, went for a roam through the bush. She walked past the Chinamen's garden and Fo Wung, carrying up buckets of water to his young cabbages, stopped to smile blandly and report on ...

— Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land • Rosa Praed

... got the first gun on deck—already prepared in Port Royal dockyard, by being encased in a stout cylindrical packing of planks—we passed the bights of our two hawsers round it, one at each end, and with all hands tailing on—except one, whom we set to watch as a sentinel—proceeded to parbuckle it up the face of the cliff. It was a stiff job, but, all our preparations having been made beforehand, everything went without a hitch; and when we knocked off work for the night all four guns were landed, ...

— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood

Words linked to "Tailing" : shadowing, following, tail, pursuit