What's the difference between lagger and sagger?

Lagger


Definition:

  • (n.) A laggard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mortality of 3000 male factory workers, 1400 laggers, and 700 women factory workers in east London has been studied.
  • (2) Laggers were employed on contract in increasing numbers in later years.
  • (3) A sub-group of 39 men, who were working as asbestos laggers or sprayers before 1957, was identified.
  • (4) The prevalence of pleural fibrosis ranged from 28% in continuously exposed workers to 1.9% in those with least exposure.Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis occurred in laggers and sprayers who had been continuously exposed for between 15 and 20 years.
  • (5) Grassroots organisers for the GMB and Unite unions were inundated with calls from members who wanted to join the industrial action erupting at the Lindsey oil refinery near Grimsby, where hundreds of welders, engineers, pipe-fitters and laggers had launched the biggest protest yet at the employment of foreign workers on energy construction projects.
  • (6) The campaign group described P&G as both a “market leader and a lagger”, for failing to drive change in the industry.
  • (7) A follow-up study of 162 men already working as insulators (laggers) in 1940 has been extended from 1965 to 1975.
  • (8) Mesothelioma was found to cluster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers.

Sagger


Definition:

  • (n.) A pot or case of fire clay, in which fine stoneware is inclosed while baking in the kiln; a seggar.
  • (n.) The clay of which such pots or cases are made.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The downpour continued during the morning, leaving much of the ground under water, and the umpires Neil Bainton and Martin Saggers decided shortly after 10am that there was no prospect of play.
  • (2) Use of custom-made sagger trays giving support to long-span fixed partial dentures at the ends and within the span is desirable for both degassing and porcelain firing, regardless of whether or not the connectors are cast or soldered.
  • (3) However, the physiological strain experienced by even the workers who remain inside the kiln for unloading the saggers for 10 min or more at a tiem before coming out for a spell of rest was not excessive, except in a few cases.

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