tailing
the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
tailings,
Building Trades. gravel, aggregate, etc., failing to pass through a given screen.
the residue of any product, as in mining; leavings.
Origin of tailing
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How to use tailing in a sentence
It was not entirely for the money that he undertook the laborious task of washing "riffles" and "screening tailings."
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow PaineThe tailings should be small, containing no light chaff and little full-size grain.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. StephensonGrain returned in the tailings is liable to get cracked in the cylinder, and much chaff in the tailings chokes the cylinder.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. StephensonThe tailings are carried back to the cylinder by an elevator usually worked with a chain.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. StephensonRefuse material from quartz, hydraulic or other mines is known as tailings.
The A B C of Mining | Charles A. Bramble
British Dictionary definitions for tailing
/ (ˈteɪlɪŋ) /
the part of a beam, rafter, projecting brick or stone, etc, embedded in a wall
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