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tailing en · NOUN

Meanings

1. The act of following someone.
2. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
   • […]iron Bar forming a Tailing for the stones which lie in the doorways 1813, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Observations on the Design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane:
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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e-tailing · tailings

tailing en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of tail
   form of tail