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tailing in

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

Meaning of tail in

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support.
    • to tail in a timber

Questions about tailing in

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

Words near tailing in in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tailing in (page history and authors); tail in (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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