Tailing

1. n. The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
2. n. The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
3. n. Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).
4. n. Sexual intercourse.
5. n. The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.