Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 {on} (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends
      into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a
      timber.