Synonyms for tailing
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : tey-ling |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈteɪ lɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for tailing Other synonyms for the word tailing
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
- 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
Antonyms for tailing
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