Crossword-Solution: TAILING
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tailing | n. | The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. |
| Tailing | n. | Same as Tail, n., 8 (a). |
| Tailing | n. | Sexual intercourse. |
| Tailing | n. | The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff. |
| Tailing | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAILING | anagram | INTAGLI |
We have 18 clues for the answer “TAILING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Following, as a detective might | 1 answer |
| part of a beam, rafter, projecting brick or stone, etc, embedded in a wall | 1 answer |
| Work for a private eye. | 1 answer |
| Work for a gumshoe. | 1 answer |
| Some detective work | 1 answer |
| Private eye's activity | 1 answer |
| Private eye business. | 1 answer |
| On the heels of | 1 answer |
| Kepping under surveillance | 1 answer |
| Following covertly | 1 answer |
| Following a suspect. | 1 answer |
| Detective's work, at times | 1 answer |
| After, like a cop | 1 answer |
| Not first | 2 answers |
| Following behind | 3 answers |
| Close behind | 9 answers |
| DETECTIVE WORK | 10 answers |
| Following | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with TAILING (5)
Six lengths in front she scours along, She's bringing the field to trouble; She's tailing them off, she's running strong, She shakes her head and pulls double.
For there's a tiny wooden cross that pricks up through the snow: (Poor Little Moccasins! you're tired, and so you lie at rest.) And there's a grey-haired, weary man beside the campfire glow: (O fiddle mine! the tears to-night are drumming on your breast.) The Wanderlust The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
Hanson, in her Sunday best; and all the children, from the oldest to the youngest;—arrived in a procession, tailing one behind another up the path.
But look! how they have thinned out! Down flat,—five,—six,—how many? They lie still enough! they will not get up again in this race, be very sure! And the rest of them, what a “tailing off”! Anybody can see who is going to win,—perhaps.
This neutralized the "tailing" effect by clearing the line between pulsations, thus allowing the telegraphic characters to be clearly and distinctly outlined upon the tape.
Quotes with TAILING (3)
He had thought it through, even though following his own logic was a bit like tracking a shadow through a tunnel, he was never sure the idea he was tailing at the exit was the same idea he had been following at the entrance.
My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoi…
Reported sightings of UFOs are tailing off. With public interest declining and subscriptions dwindling, NICAP and APRO start to compete with each other over membership. The open-minded middle ground is stretched to breaking point, caught between the hardware of scientific detail and the extreme fantasies of contact.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).