tailing

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of tail

noun

1. The act of following someone.
2. (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
   […]iron Bar forming a Tailing for the stones which lie in the doorways 1813, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Observations on the Design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
3. (obsolete) sexual intercourse
4. (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
5. A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.