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