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tailing

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tail·ing  (tlng)
n.
1. tailings Refuse or dross remaining after ore has been processed.
2. Architecture The portion of a tailed beam, brick, or board inside a wall.
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Noun1.tailing - the act of following someone secretly
shadowing
chase, pursual, pursuit, following - the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture; "the culprit started to run and the cop took off in pursuit"


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He met them everywhere, at the wheel, on lookout, washing decks, polishing brass-work, running aloft, or tailing on to sheets and tackles half a dozen at a time.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
One, tailing out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
The wounded, and wanting of sleep, and the pierced, kisses your worship's hands, ungrateful and very unrecognised fair one; and it said something or other about health and sickness that he was sending her; and from that it went tailing off until it ended with
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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