Tailing
['teɪlɪŋ] or ['telɪŋ]
Definition
(n.) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
(n.) Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
(n.) Sexual intercourse.
(n.) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
(n.) The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
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Examples
- I--I didn't understand him so, certainly,' said Mr. Winkle, astounded on this ingenious dove-tailing of the few words he had heard. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- This neutralized the tailing effect by clearing the line between pulsations, thus allowing the telegraphic characters to be clearly and distinctly outlined upon the tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These secondary marks were called tailings. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As intimated at the outset, the tailings will be 75 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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