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To tail in

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.]

    Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament.
    --Fuller.

  2. To pull or draw by the tail. [R.]
    --Hudibras.

    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.

Usage examples of "to tail in".

Once there, you are surrounded by square boxlike things that are jammed head to tail in lines that stretch off into the horizon.

The flying monster was stretched on the ground and was wrapped from head to tail in the coils of something which Roverton could only designate to himself as a vegetable anaconda.

He hung there, dangling above the swamp at the rope's end by both paws, covered from ears to tail in thick foul mud.

He was coated from head to tail in reeking sludge, roaring and spitting mud as toads and mudfish clung to him, gnawing.