Lag

Definition:

  • (a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
  • (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
  • (a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
  • (n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
  • (n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
  • (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
  • (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
  • (n.) See Graylag.
  • (v. i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
  • (v. t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
  • (v. t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
  • (n.) One transported for a crime.
  • (v. t.) To transport for crime.

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