tailing

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tailing

  1. present participle and gerund of tail

Noun

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tailing (plural tailings)

  1. The act of following someone.
  2. (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • 1813, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Observations on the Design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane:
      [] iron Bar forming a Tailing for the stones which lie in the doorways
  3. (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
  4. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

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