"tailing" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1813, Benjamin Dean Wyatt, Observations on the Design for the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane:",
          "text": "[…]iron Bar forming a Tailing for the stones which lie in the doorways",
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        "(obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff."
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        "A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together."
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