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tailer|ˈteɪlə(r)|
[f. tail v.1 + -er1.]
1. Angling. A fish that tails: see tail v.1 17.
1899Buxton in 19th Cent. Jan. 120 A moderate performer with the rod..will often..pick up a grubber under the bank, a bulger here, a tailer there. 1899Daily News 22 Apr. 8/3 Now, like a fan, the broad, waving tail of a ‘tailer’ shows yellow in upper air.
†2.
a. A follower or hanger-on.
b. spec. on the U.S. Stock Exchange (see quot. 1900). Obs.
1838Disraeli Let. in Monypenny & Buckle Life Disraeli (1912) II. i. 20 Two of the greatest ruffians in the House... They are ‘Tailers’. 1899G. B. Shaw Let. 30 Dec. (1972) II. 127 Though the old favorites would get in on both sides, there would be a real contest between the outsiders and tailers. 1900S. A. Nelson ABC Wall St. 161 Tailer. Big operators have a following of little traders who tail-on a bull or a bear movement on the theory that to make money it is a good thing to follow in the wake of the successful men. 1903F. Norris Pit viii. 269 The ‘tailers’—the little Bulls—were radiant.
3. Austral. One who follows, drives, or tends sheep or cattle; also, a straggling animal.
1893K. Mackay Out Back (ed. 2) iii. iii. 233 Fitzspats was absent, having gone out with the ‘tailers’ that morning. 1927M. M. Bennett Christison of Lammermoor xxvi. 237 The cattle that had come in were watered and handed over to the tailers' mob. 1959J. Wright Generations of Men (1960) ix. 107 Silent dogs at the heels of the tailers.
4. A device with a metal loop used for landing large fish by the tail.
1962Times 31 Mar. 11/5 Some fishermen prefer the tailer to the gaff at all times. 1974Country Life 14 Mar. 599/3, I was not optimistic enough to bring with me a tailer or gaffe or net, but..my fly was taken by an eight-pounder.
5. tailer-out, one who guides timber as it comes off a saw. Austral. and N.Z.
1907G. B. Lancaster Tracks we Tread vi. 87 The bench sawyers felt it, and the trolley-men; and each tailer-out and engine driver. 1930W. Smyth Wooden Rails ii. 32 She came upon the sawyer and his mate, the tailer-out. 1950Landfall IV. 125 The planer..spits out faced boards for the tailer-out to stack by the goose-saw. 1971N.Z. Listener 8 Nov. 15/4 He worked all day as a tailer-out in the mill. |