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tailing down

tailing down is the present participle and gerund of tail down.

Meaning of tail down

Verb

tail down (third-person singular simple present tails down, present participle tailing down, simple past and past participle tailed down)

  1. (bricklaying) To stabilize a corbel by laying back bricks first to stabilize the structure.

Questions about tailing down

What is tailing down the present participle and gerund of?
Tailing down is the present participle and gerund of tail down.

Words near tailing down in the dictionary

  1. tailholes
  2. tailhook
  3. tailhooks
  4. tailing
  5. tailing away
  6. tailing down
  7. tailing in
  8. tailing off
  9. tailings
  10. tailism
  11. tailjob

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailing down (page history and authors); tail down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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