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tailing [tāl·iŋ]

(building construction)

The projecting portion of a stone or brick that has been set into a wall, for example, a cornice.

tailing

1. That portion of a projecting stone or series of stones, as in a cornice, which is built into a wall.

2.See tailings.

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No references found			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			tail bay tail beam tail call optimisation tail call optimization tail circuit tail clipping tail cut tail fin tail house tail joist tail out tail pulley tail recursion tail recursion modulo cons tail recursion optimisation tail rope tail sheave tail surface tail track system tail trimmer tail warning radar tail-rope system tail-strict tailboard tailgate tailing tailing in tailing iron Tailing Pond Tailings tailings settling tank Taille Taillefer tailor tailorbird Tailpiece tailpipe tailplane tailrace tailshaft tailstock Tailte Fair tailwater ditch tailwind Taimanov, Isatai Taimura Taimyr Taimyr Autonomous Okrug Taimyr Bay Taimyr Gulf Taimyr Malyi			tailed toad Tailem Bend District Hospital Taileron tailfin tailfin Tailfin era Tailfins tailflower tailgate tailgate tailgate Tailgate Detection, Alarm, and Recording System tailgated tailgated tailgated tailgater tailgater tailgater tailgaters tailgaters tailgates tailgates tailgates tailgating tailgating tailgating tailgating ticket Tailgunner Tailgunner Joe tailhead tailing tailing in tailing iron Tailing pond Tailing ponds Tailing Storage Facility tailings tailings tailings Tailings (mining) Tailings (mining) tailings settling tank Tailings Solvent Recovery Unit Taillcenn Taillcenn taille taille taille Taille-Hüft Verhältnis Taillefer Taillefer (minstrel) tailles tailles tailless tailless tailless tailless tailless tailless Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft tailless tenrec

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