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Lagging   /lˈægɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Lagging  n.  
1.
(Mach.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; called also deading and cleading.
2.
Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.


verb
Lag  v. t.  
1.
To cause to lag; to slacken. (Obs.) "To lag his flight."
2.
(Mach.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.


Lag  v. t.  To transport for crime. (Slang, Eng.) "She lags us if we poach."


Lag  v. i.  (past & past part. lagged; pres. part. lagging)  To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. "I shall not lag behind."
Synonyms: To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.





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"Lagging" Quotes from Famous Books



... conducted his lagging charge was furnished in every particular like a room in a new hotel; and Bibbs found it pleasant—though, indeed, any room with a good bed would have seemed pleasant to him after his journey. He stretched himself flat immediately, and having replied "Not now" to the attendant's offer to ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... a lagging step, she met Madge's face peering up. "Humph! there you be, my fine miss! No gaping after sweethearts from the window, or it will ...
— Love and Life • Charlotte M. Yonge
... out, 6 by 12-in. laggings or polings were put up in the roof, with the rear ends resting on the iron lining and the leading ends resting on vertical breast boards. The heading was then widened out rapidly and the lagging was placed, down to about 45 deg. from the crown. The forward ends of the laggings were then supported by a timber rib and sill. Protected by this roof, the full section was excavated, and three rings of the iron lining ...
— Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 • James H. Brace, Francis Mason and S. H. Woodard
... Best's lagging steps allowed Magdalen to come up with them, but dead silence fell on them when Mrs. Best observed, "You were very merry." They could not speak of the cause. Perhaps Magdalen divined something, for ...
— Modern Broods • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... friends; then, at last, there will be rest from sorrow. But now I wish to go abroad, to give deliverance from pain; now then, for your own sake it is, and for the sake of all your kind, that you should exert your strength, with noble pace, without lagging or weariness." Having thus exhorted him, he bestrode his horse, and grasping the reins proceeded forth; the man like the sun shining forth from his tabernacle, the horse like the white floating cloud, exerting himself but without exciting haste, ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various


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