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tailer

n. 1 One who follows or tails surreptitiously, as an investigator. 2 (context nautical English) A worker on a yacht, responsible for furling and setting the sails. 3 (context fishing English) A large noose with a long handle intended to secure a fish's tail. 4 (context fishing English) A fish bottom-feeding in shallow water with its tail out of the water.

Usage examples of "tailer".

The Tailor of Gloucester had become The Tailer of Gloucester with a number of samples hanging in the window.

The Tailer of Gloucester still had bits off animal butts hanging in the window, so hopefully it was the former not the later.

Suffern Tailer, a New York society man and political leader, at 3 East 38th Street.

That meant that the tailer could come even closer with no fear of being recognized.

Saul Panzer would have made it ten more than that, but Saul is the best tailer alive.

And a few of the families stay beneath the roofs their forefathers built, watching, as they watched, the same quiet trees and lawns and paths of the most charming square in all New York: De Forest, Rhinelander, Delano, Stewart, De Rham, Gould, Wynkoop, Tailer, Guinness, Claflin, Booth, Darlington, Gregory, Hoyt, Schell, Shattuck, Weekes,--these, and others are still the names of the residents of Washington Square North.

The watchers, that elite team of MI-5 agents who—on their own turf, at least—are reckoned by all the Western services to be the best tailers in the world, were put on alert to envelop Anthony Milton-Rice the following morn­ing as he approached the Defense Ministry with an invisible surveillance for twenty-four hours in every day.

Nor had there been any word from any of the tailers, but I was soon to know where Saul Panzer was.