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Grammar : Verb
Spell : tey-ling
Phonetic Transcription : ˈteɪ lɪŋ

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Définition of tailing

Origin :
  • "limitation of ownership," a legal term, early 14c. in Anglo-French; late 13c. in Anglo-Latin, in most cases a shortened form of entail.
  • verb follow
Example sentences :
  • We are like a comet, bright at the head but tailing away into mere gas behind.
  • Extract from : « The Stark Munro Letters » by J. Stark Munro
  • Rotten cold it was, too, and me tailing on like a blamed chaperon!
  • Extract from : « The Crevice » by William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
  • Most gruesome invention that ever hit the tailing profession.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
  • The tailing off of the remark was not quite suitable for publication, so I omit it.
  • Extract from : « A Frontier Mystery » by Bertram Mitford
  • And he knew every one of them and sang them all with the tailing of the bag-pipes in the sound.
  • Extract from : « The Dead Men's Song » by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
  • We must have a little topping and tailing here, and I think you'll do.
  • Extract from : « The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Part 5. » by Robert Seymour
  • Two or three times I've been on the point of tailing him into the woods somewhere and killing him, and so get rid of him.
  • Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) » by John McElroy
  • But the mysterious stranger was too quick for him, and when Tailing leapt to his feet he was alone.
  • Extract from : « The Daffodil Mystery » by Edgar Wallace
  • A grassy glade slopes down to the bank, tailing away inland into a path something like a “ride” in an English game covert.
  • Extract from : « Forging the Blades » by Bertram Mitford
  • By this time Pocket Hercules has enough, and at the road the tailing grows at every stride.
  • Extract from : « Sybil » by Benjamin Disraeli

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