queued

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of queue.

   The print jobs were queued and sent to the printer one at a time.

   The server had queued thousands of requests by the time the outage ended.

   Note

   One spelling serves as the simple past (shoppers queued since dawn) and as the past participle (the jobs were queued). People who queue take no object, while computing gives the verb one: the system queued the request. Hair gathered into a braid at the back is queued too, the same idea of a tail that runs through the heraldic adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   In heraldry, having a tail or tails, as a beast shown on a coat of arms does.

   The town's coat of arms shows a crowned lion standing rampant, double-queued, its two tails crossed.

   Most heraldic beasts are drawn queued, so a tailless lion on a shield stands out.

   Note

   Heraldry has its own word order, and this adjective obeys it: in blazon, the formal language of coats of arms, it follows the noun, as in a lion rampant double-queued. It often takes a number in front to say how many tails the beast carries, so double-queued gives two tails to a lion standing on its hind legs.

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