tailingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈteɪlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈteɪlɪŋ/

Etymology: < tail v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of tail v.¹, in its various senses.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes

raggling1500

rigalding1688

tailing1700

rusticating1749

rustication1766

knobbling1785

boasting1823

wind-pinning1833

stroking1842

garreting1845

hearting1858

knobbing1875

ripple-flaking1883

retouch1885

society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > wheel used to drive mill > action of when clogged by tail-water

tailing1829

the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > lagging or falling behind

lagging1600

tailing1858

society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > [noun] > accidentally > by the stern

tailing1860

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 29 You must Cement pieces to the ends of your bricks for tailing, or to make them longer.

1782 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting (new ed.) 71 (note) The tailing of them [sc. hounds' ears], is usually done before they be put out.

1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Hydraulics iii. 26 The tailing of mill-streams only occurs in the winter seasons, or at times when there is a profusion of water.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 41 Short as the course was, it led to a great deal of what the turf-men call tailing.

1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vi. 56 When cattle are first brought to a new country they are subjected to a process called ‘tailing’, which consists in watching them with horsemen by day, and driving them into their enclosures every night.

1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. 494 Mercury, holding but a slight portion of any impurity, dissolved, loses its property of cohering into globular drops.., and assumes the..appearance designated by the..term tailing, that is to say each..aggregation is..an irregularly elongated bar or tail.

1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 108 They will not get up again in this race,..And the rest of them, what a ‘tailing off'!

1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 327 Moored in 6 fathoms..clear from tailing into shoal water.

2. plural. A name for the inferior qualities, leavings, or residue of any product; foots, bottoms.

a. Grain or flour of inferior quality; tail grain, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain

hummel corn1474

multure corn1546

tailings1764

tail1775

chicken corna1817

screening1824

pilkins1859

tail-end1859

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > leavings after main part exhausted

leaving1340

leavingc1350

beleavingc1440

residence?1545

afterings1609

refuse1665

fleeting-milka1670

tailings1764

rinsing1812

1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xii. 40 I supposed..that they would go to the tailing, or off-fall corn.

1846 Osborne Times 24 Aug. For a bushel of best wheat they pay 7s., for first tailings they pay 6s. for second tailings 5s. the bushel.

1883 Harper's Mag. June 76/2 All that is left—no longer wheat—is divided into ‘middlings’ and ‘tailings’.

b. Mining. The residuum after most of the valuable ore has been extracted.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > ore > [noun] > residuum after ore is extracted

side-waver1849

tailings1864

1864 W. Westgarth Colony of Victoria xi. 222 His people were content with ‘tailings’, and places abandoned by the colonists.

1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 20 In the river-beds..are large accumulations of ‘tailings’, rich in gold, which escaped under the primitive processes of washing formerly in use.

1901 Scotsman 3 Apr. 6/7 1570 tons of tailings produced by cyanide process yielded 138 ozs.

c. A decomposed outcrop of a vein or bed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > outcrop of vein or stratum

crop1686

gossan1778

iron hat1811

blossom1819

iron cap1823

blossom-rock1871

tailings1881

top-crop1889

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > vein > [noun] > decomposed outcrop of

tailings1881

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blossom, the oxidized or decomposed outcrop of a vein or coal-bed, more frequently the latter... Called..tailing.

d. Tanning: see 1885.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > tannin > tanning solutions > when already used for some time

tailings1885

1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (1897) x. 174 In one of these [methods] the tanning~liquor which has been in use for some time, is made use of under the name of ‘tailings’, or sour liquor.

e. General.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything

dreg1531

tail1542

excrement1576

lee1593

garbage1598

recrement1599

tap-lash1623

ground1629

gross1708

tailings1889

1889 Daily News 28 Feb. 7/2 We fancy that out of the rejected mass of papers there are very few ‘tailings’ worth sifting.

a. The end or latter part: cf. tail n.¹ 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > rear end

lag-end1598

back-enda1617

tailing1646

tail-end1747

rear end1785

tailpiece1786

1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. ii. 53 I shall hope to get the rest of my tailing together, and make such further provision of..materialls as may enable mee to goe through with the same.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 30 Good Lord, they slipped behind us In the tailing of our wake!

†b. spec. = tail n.¹ 4g. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > [noun] > part

tailing1684

tail1762

reef flat1886

reef platform1899

1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1856) 43 The vessel was driven on the tailings of a ledge of rocks, where the sea broke violently.

c. Architecture. See quot. 1842: cf. tail n.¹ 4i.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > part of stone or brick inserted in wall

tailing1842

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1039 Tailing, the part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

1856 S. C. Brees Terms & Rules Archit. (at cited word) The stone steps of a staircase have a tailing of about 9 inches, in order to support them.

d. Surgery. = tail n.¹ 4j. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > incision > [noun] > an incision > either end of

tail1846

tailing1864

1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

Categories »

4. In calico-printing: A fault of impression, in which the colours are blurred: see tail v.¹ 18.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

tailing-assay n.

ΚΠ

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 106 Yielding..a little over $7.15 per ton, exclusive of their tailing-assay of $3.76 per ton.

tailing-barley n.

tailing-corn n.

ΚΠ

1747 Gentleman's Mag. July 311/2 The tailing corn may soon be cleaned.

1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 29 in Farm-rep. Their food..in winter, [is] raw potatoes, with tailing corn, whey, and skimmed milk.

tailing ground n.

ΚΠ

1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 67 He had caught sight of a native hanging about the ‘tailing-ground’.

tailing-heap n.

ΚΠ

1899 Daily News 13 Oct. 3/1 The immense tailing heaps thrown up by the various companies have proved an excellent means of defence, forming earthworks which command the town [Kimberley] from every side.

tailing pile n.

ΚΠ

1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator lxviii. 687 The gold fields of the world now deliver up to fifty millions dollars' worth of gold per year which would have gone into the tailing-pile under the former conditions.

1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun vi. 54 Across the entrance of the valley..stretched the heaped ‘tailing-piles’, tippings of the huge gold-dredges.

tailing-sand n.

ΚΠ

1890 Goldfields of Victoria 21 Recent assays of the tailing sand.

tailing-wheat n.

ΚΠ

1862 Q. Rev. Apr. 286 When..the..tailing-wheat or ‘gristing’ is sound and of good quality.

tailing yard n.

ΚΠ

1930 A. Groom Merry Christmas xx. 158 The cattle could be seen moving quietly to the tailing yards.

1963 W. E. Harney To Ayers Rock & Beyond v. 45 During my early cattle days all mustering was done into drafting yards... They did not alter the method until the drafting-yards was superseded by the ‘tailing-yard’ with bronco-panels and twisted greenhide ropes with a leather ‘hoonda’ for the ring.

tailing-mill n.

ΚΠ

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 186 The silver or tailings mill has not undergone any change.

tailings-man n.

ΚΠ

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 40 The remainder comprising 9 trammers, 6 mill-men, 1 tailings-man [etc.].

C2.

tailing-mob n. a herd of cattle regularly tailed or herded.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > herd > of particular type

creaghta1599

spreathc1700

tailing-mob1885

1885 R. C. Praed Head Station 266 The beasts were..made to join what was called the ‘tailing mob’, or those which had been constantly herded.

tailing-rope n. Nautical = tail-rope n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace

sheet1336

swing-rope1336

shoot1405

mainbrace1485

mainsheet1485

top-sheet1485

smite1494

tailing-rope1495

tail-rope1495

brace1626

stern-sheets1626

trimmers1630

fore-sheet1669

jib-sheet1825

boom-sheet1836

1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 197 Taylyng Ropes for the Mayne sayle..vj; Crane lynes for the Mayne Toppe..j.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tailing
释义	tailingn.¹ Brit. /ˈteɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈteɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < tail v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of tail v.¹, in its various senses. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes raggling1500 rigalding1688 tailing1700 rusticating1749 rustication1766 knobbling1785 boasting1823 wind-pinning1833 stroking1842 garreting1845 hearting1858 knobbing1875 ripple-flaking1883 retouch1885 society > occupation and work > equipment > mills > [noun] > wheel used to drive mill > action of when clogged by tail-water tailing1829 the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > lagging or falling behind lagging1600 tailing1858 society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > [noun] > accidentally > by the stern tailing1860 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 29 You must Cement pieces to the ends of your bricks for tailing, or to make them longer. 1782 P. Beckford Thoughts on Hunting (new ed.) 71 (note) The tailing of them [sc. hounds' ears], is usually done before they be put out. 1829 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. Hydraulics iii. 26 The tailing of mill-streams only occurs in the winter seasons, or at times when there is a profusion of water. 1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 41 Short as the course was, it led to a great deal of what the turf-men call tailing. 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life Austral. vi. 56 When cattle are first brought to a new country they are subjected to a process called ‘tailing’, which consists in watching them with horsemen by day, and driving them into their enclosures every night. 1854 J. Scoffern in Orr's Circle Sci., Chem. 494 Mercury, holding but a slight portion of any impurity, dissolved, loses its property of cohering into globular drops.., and assumes the..appearance designated by the..term tailing, that is to say each..aggregation is..an irregularly elongated bar or tail. 1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table iv. 108 They will not get up again in this race,..And the rest of them, what a ‘tailing off'! 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 327 Moored in 6 fathoms..clear from tailing into shoal water. 2. plural. A name for the inferior qualities, leavings, or residue of any product; foots, bottoms. a. Grain or flour of inferior quality; tail grain, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > corn, cereals, or grain > [noun] > inferior grain hummel corn1474 multure corn1546 tailings1764 tail1775 chicken corna1817 screening1824 pilkins1859 tail-end1859 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > leavings after main part exhausted leaving1340 leavingc1350 beleavingc1440 residence?1545 afterings1609 refuse1665 fleeting-milka1670 tailings1764 rinsing1812 1764 Museum Rusticum (1765) 3 xii. 40 I supposed..that they would go to the tailing, or off-fall corn. 1846 Osborne Times 24 Aug. For a bushel of best wheat they pay 7s., for first tailings they pay 6s. for second tailings 5s. the bushel. 1883 Harper's Mag. June 76/2 All that is left—no longer wheat—is divided into ‘middlings’ and ‘tailings’. b. Mining. The residuum after most of the valuable ore has been extracted. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > ore > [noun] > residuum after ore is extracted side-waver1849 tailings1864 1864 W. Westgarth Colony of Victoria xi. 222 His people were content with ‘tailings’, and places abandoned by the colonists. 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 20 In the river-beds..are large accumulations of ‘tailings’, rich in gold, which escaped under the primitive processes of washing formerly in use. 1901 Scotsman 3 Apr. 6/7 1570 tons of tailings produced by cyanide process yielded 138 ozs. c. A decomposed outcrop of a vein or bed. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > outcrop of vein or stratum crop1686 gossan1778 iron hat1811 blossom1819 iron cap1823 blossom-rock1871 tailings1881 top-crop1889 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > vein > [noun] > decomposed outcrop of tailings1881 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blossom, the oxidized or decomposed outcrop of a vein or coal-bed, more frequently the latter... Called..tailing. d. Tanning: see 1885. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > tannin > tanning solutions > when already used for some time tailings1885 1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (1897) x. 174 In one of these [methods] the tanning~liquor which has been in use for some time, is made use of under the name of ‘tailings’, or sour liquor. e. General. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > refuse part of anything dreg1531 tail1542 excrement1576 lee1593 garbage1598 recrement1599 tap-lash1623 ground1629 gross1708 tailings1889 1889 Daily News 28 Feb. 7/2 We fancy that out of the rejected mass of papers there are very few ‘tailings’ worth sifting. 3. a. The end or latter part: cf. tail n.¹ 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > end or extremity > [noun] > rear end lag-end1598 back-enda1617 tailing1646 tail-end1747 rear end1785 tailpiece1786 1646 J. Temple Irish Rebell. ii. 53 I shall hope to get the rest of my tailing together, and make such further provision of..materialls as may enable mee to goe through with the same. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 30 Good Lord, they slipped behind us In the tailing of our wake! †b. spec. = tail n.¹ 4g. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > reef > [noun] > part tailing1684 tail1762 reef flat1886 reef platform1899 1684 I. Mather Ess. Illustrious Provid. (1856) 43 The vessel was driven on the tailings of a ledge of rocks, where the sea broke violently. c. Architecture. See quot. 1842: cf. tail n.¹ 4i. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > part of stone or brick inserted in wall tailing1842 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1039 Tailing, the part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. 1856 S. C. Brees Terms & Rules Archit. (at cited word) The stone steps of a staircase have a tailing of about 9 inches, in order to support them. d. Surgery. = tail n.¹ 4j. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > incision > [noun] > an incision > either end of tail1846 tailing1864 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Categories » 4. In calico-printing: A fault of impression, in which the colours are blurred: see tail v.¹ 18. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. tailing-assay n. ΚΠ 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 106 Yielding..a little over $7.15 per ton, exclusive of their tailing-assay of $3.76 per ton. tailing-barley n. tailing-corn n. ΚΠ 1747 Gentleman's Mag. July 311/2 The tailing corn may soon be cleaned. 1831 J. Morton Gloucestershire Vale-farm 29 in Farm-rep. Their food..in winter, [is] raw potatoes, with tailing corn, whey, and skimmed milk. tailing ground n. ΚΠ 1878 E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 67 He had caught sight of a native hanging about the ‘tailing-ground’. tailing-heap n. ΚΠ 1899 Daily News 13 Oct. 3/1 The immense tailing heaps thrown up by the various companies have proved an excellent means of defence, forming earthworks which command the town [Kimberley] from every side. tailing pile n. ΚΠ 1897 ‘M. Twain’ Following Equator lxviii. 687 The gold fields of the world now deliver up to fifty millions dollars' worth of gold per year which would have gone into the tailing-pile under the former conditions. 1934 I. W. Hutchison North to Rime-ringed Sun vi. 54 Across the entrance of the valley..stretched the heaped ‘tailing-piles’, tippings of the huge gold-dredges. tailing-sand n. ΚΠ 1890 Goldfields of Victoria 21 Recent assays of the tailing sand. tailing-wheat n. ΚΠ 1862 Q. Rev. Apr. 286 When..the..tailing-wheat or ‘gristing’ is sound and of good quality. tailing yard n. ΚΠ 1930 A. Groom Merry Christmas xx. 158 The cattle could be seen moving quietly to the tailing yards. 1963 W. E. Harney To Ayers Rock & Beyond v. 45 During my early cattle days all mustering was done into drafting yards... They did not alter the method until the drafting-yards was superseded by the ‘tailing-yard’ with bronco-panels and twisted greenhide ropes with a leather ‘hoonda’ for the ring. b. tailing-mill n. ΚΠ 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 186 The silver or tailings mill has not undergone any change. tailings-man n. ΚΠ 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 40 The remainder comprising 9 trammers, 6 mill-men, 1 tailings-man [etc.]. C2. tailing-mob n. a herd of cattle regularly tailed or herded. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > herd > of particular type creaghta1599 spreathc1700 tailing-mob1885 1885 R. C. Praed Head Station 266 The beasts were..made to join what was called the ‘tailing mob’, or those which had been constantly herded. tailing-rope n. Nautical = tail-rope n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > sheet or brace sheet1336 swing-rope1336 shoot1405 mainbrace1485 mainsheet1485 top-sheet1485 smite1494 tailing-rope1495 tail-rope1495 brace1626 stern-sheets1626 trimmers1630 fore-sheet1669 jib-sheet1825 boom-sheet1836 1495 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 197 Taylyng Ropes for the Mayne sayle..vj; Crane lynes for the Mayne Toppe..j. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † tailingn.² Forms: Also Middle English -ende. Etymology: < tail v.² + -ing suffix¹. Obsolete. ? Tallying, reckoning. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] tailing1362 reasona1382 accountantship1640 accountinga1676 accountancy1699 account1715 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. ix. 74 Ho is..Trewe of his tonge..And trusti of his taylende [B. viii. 82 tailende, taylyng] takeþ bote his owne. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). tailingadj. Brit. /ˈteɪlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈteɪlɪŋ/ Etymology: < tail v.¹ + -ing suffix². That tails. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [adjective] > that tails tailing1899 1899 Buxton in 19th Cent. Jan. 121 There is the ‘tailing’ fish [trout], feeding on caddis snail or shrimp, breaking the surface. 1908 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 391 Offering the ‘tailing’ fish a floating fly. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1495n.²1362adj.1899
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tailingn.1

Compounds

† tailingn.2

tailingadj.

tailingn.¹

† tailingn.²