tail in

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Verb

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

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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tail in”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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