tailing

English

Verb

tailing

1. present participle of tail

Noun

tailing (plural tailings)

1. The act of following someone.
2. (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

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3. (obsolete) sexual intercourse

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4. (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
5. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tailing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

See also

• tailings

Anagrams

• gitalin, iligant, intagli