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tailing

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of tail

noun tailings

  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
  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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@misc{tailing_2026,
  title = {tailing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tailing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}