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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



... much interested recently in hearing one small but experienced golf caddy boy of twelve explaining to a green caddy, who had shown special energy and interest, the necessity of going slow and lagging behind his man when he came up to the ball, showing him that since they were paid by the hour, the faster they went the less money they got, and finally telling him that if he went too fast the other boys would ...
— The Principles of Scientific Management • Frederick Winslow Taylor
... sun was hot on the plateau and the way very rough. They climbed constantly over ragged boulders, and chaotic rock heaps, or rounded deep fissures that cut the plateau like spider webs. Muscular and in good form as was the trio, frequent rests were necessary. They had one mishap. Na-che, lagging behind, slipped into a fissure. Enoch and Diana blanched at her sudden scream and ran back as she disappeared. Mercifully a great rock had tumbled into the crevice some time before and Na-che landed squarely on this, six feet below the surface. ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... thought that individually many of the men liked him. He had done what he could for their comfort and paid them the highest price justifiable, but gradually he found that his influence was being undermined and that the good-natured lagging which Peter had at first tried to tolerate had turned to loafing on the job, and finally to overt acts of rebellion. More men had been sent away and others with even less conscience had taken their places. Some of them had enunciated Bolshevist doctrines as wild as any ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs
... was still tramping up and down when little Mose returned from his nightly foray upon the crap games of the neighbourhood. The boy approached silently and with lagging gait, sure signs that fortune had not been kind to him. When the dice behaved well it was his habit to return with songs and improvised ...
— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
... "You'll be some time lagging Charley Hannaford with argyments. Coverts is coverts, my son, and Bow Street is ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


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