[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

tail \tail\, v. t.
   1. to follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely
      to, as that which can not be evaded. obs.
      1913 webster

            nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds,
            wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and
            was called on the next parliament.    --fuller.
      1913 webster

   2. to pull or draw by the tail. r. --hudibras.
      1913 webster

   to tail in or to tail on arch., to fasten by one of the
      ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a
      timber.
      1913 webster
see also:
to tail in to tail on 

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