Tailing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAILING in dictionary:

VERB:
• follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret
• (of an object in flight) drift or curve in a particular direction
• remove the stalks or ends of (fruit or vegetables) in preparation for cooking.
• pull on the end of (a rope) after it has been wrapped round the drum of a winch a few times, in order to prevent slipping when the winch rotates.
• join (one thing) to another.
• provide with a tail
• follow
NOUN:
• the refuse part of mined ore
• the hindmost part of an animal, especially when prolonged beyond the rest of the body, such as the flexible extension of the backbone in a vertebrate, the feathers at the hind end of a bird, or a terminal appendage in an insect
• a slender backward prolongation of each hindwing in some butterflies.
• the rear part of an aeroplane, with the tailplane and rudder
• the lower or hanging part of a garment, especially the back of a shirt or coat
• the luminous trail of particles following a comet.
• the lower end of a pool or stream
• the exposed end of a slate or tile in a roof
• an extremity of a curve approaching the horizontal axis of a graph, especially that of a frequency distribution.
• the end of a long train or line of people or vehicles
• the final, more distant, or weaker part of something
• the end of the batting order, with the weakest batsmen
• a person secretly following another to observe their movements
• women collectively regarded in sexual terms
• the side of a coin without the image of a head on it (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner)
• limitation of ownership, especially of an estate or title limited to a person and their direct descendants
• part of a beam, rafter, projecting brick or stone, etc, embedded in a wall
• The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
• Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
• Sexual intercourse.
• The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
• 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.
• the act of following someone secretly
• a thing resembling an animal's tail in its shape or position, typically extending downwards or outwards at the end of something
• a tailcoat, or a man's formal evening suit with a tailcoat
• a person's buttocks
• a woman's genitals.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with a tail (a hindmost part)
• the part of a projecting stone or brick that is inserted into a wall

Words related to TAILING

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Words that contain TAILING

tailings9 detailing11 entailing10 retailing10 bobtailing15 curtailing13 detailings12 lobtailing13 retailings11 cocktailing20 dovetailing16 fishtailing18 hightailing19 lobtailings14 disentailing14 dovetailings17 shirttailing16

How to use TAILING in a sentence

• They were at the time back again in their appointed place, tailing the procession.
• One of the whips dropped back, however, as some of the hounds were tailing off, and that brought them down to five.
• 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.
• How had we learned them? Why, in the long days we had spent in the saddle tailing the milkers and searching after lost horses for many a night.
• Griffin, though a conjuror could hardly read it, tailing directly on as it does.
• And very soon it did try the pace of them, for they had not gone above a mile before there was very considerable tailing with both.
• They swept past the teepees without stopping, the biggest ones in the van, the little ones tailing off and falling down and getting up again with piteous cries.
• And he knew every one of them and sang them all with the tailing of the bag-pipes in the sound.
• One, tailing out behind the rest, was a lad that had gone from the hamlet to Dr.
• No no, not it a line not it tailing, tailing in, not it in.

Similar words containing TAIL without suffix ing

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