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tailings

noun

Meaning

  • The act of following someone.

  • The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.

  • Sexual intercourse

  • The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.

  • A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together.

noun

Meaning

  • The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing; gangue, slimes