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Tailing vs Spoils - What's the difference?

tailing | spoils |

As verbs the difference between tailing and spoils

is that tailing is while spoils is (spoil).

As nouns the difference between tailing and spoils

is that tailing is the act of following someone while spoils is that which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.

tailing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of following someone.
  • (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
    • (Gwilt)
  • (obsolete) sexual intercourse
    • (Chaucer)
  • (obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * tailings

    spoils

    English

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
    • "Gentle gales, Fanning their odoriferous wings, dispense Native perfumes, and whisper whence they stole Those balmy spoils." —Milton.
  • Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage; -- commonly in the plural; as
    • to the victor belong the spoils

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spoil)
    • Milk spoils when left out too long.