tailing

IPA: tˈeɪɫɪŋ

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

Examples of "tailing" in Sentences

The pastime of "tailing" a bull is somewhat singular.
Then a 4-1/2 year old buck came in tailing a doe that was in estrous.
The Army Corps has often issued permits to create so-called tailing ponds.
If you brake too soon, with the tip held too high, the forward-moving line will collide either with the rod or with itself, creating what's called a tailing loop.
Department of Justice officials for use against members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.
That heated water is then dumped into an ever-increasing number of so-called tailing ponds -- which are really the size of lakes -- to begin a process of settling out the clay and sand and recycling the water to be used again.
That first assignment of "tailing" kept him thirty-six hours without sleep, but he stuck to his trail, stuck to it with the blind pertinacity of a bloodhound, and at the end transcended mere animalism by buying a tip from a friendly bartender.
Such an impulse, following immediately upon the interruption of the circuit of the transmitting battery, acts to destroy the effect of the "tailing" or static discharge of the line, L, upon the receiving instrument, and also to neutralize the same throughout the line.