Associations to the word «Tailing»

Wiktionary

TAILING, verb. Present participle of tail
TAILING, noun. The act of following someone.
TAILING, noun. (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
TAILING, noun. (obsolete) sexual intercourse
TAILING, noun. (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
TAILING, noun. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

Dictionary definition

TAILING, noun. The act of following someone secretly.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope