Definitions for tailings

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tailings tail·ing

Spelling: [tey-ling]

IPA: /ˈteɪ lɪŋ/

Tailings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 295 anagrams from letters in tailings (agiilnst).

Definitions for tailings

noun

1. the part of a projecting stone or brick tailed or inserted in a wall.
2. tailings. Building Trades. gravel, aggregate, etc., failing to pass through a given screen. the residue of any product, as in mining; leavings.

Origin of tailings

First recorded in 1640-50; tail¹ + -ing¹

Examples for tailings

For every reason, the tailings should be kept as low as possible.

The tailings passing off, worthless, are conveyed to the dump.

I don't want nothing to work up the tailings of my mine, me!

The tailings of a purifier do not usually exceed 10 to 15% of the feed.

In this case provision should be made for tailings, dams, or slime pits.

Refuse material from quartz, hydraulic or other mines is known as tailings.

The product which then commences to distill is known as tailings.

After this there were plenty of free entertainments on the tailings.

It terminated at what was obviously a great mound of "tailings."

So these tailings are what's left after the gold's washed out.