tailing

English

Verb

tailing

1. present participle and gerund 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.
   • 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) sexual intercourse(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

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.

See also

• tailings

See also

• e-tailing

References

• “tailing”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• gitalin, iligant, intagli