Thesaurus: lag

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1. a. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
2. a. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
3. a. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
4. n. One who lags; that which comes in last.
5. n. The class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/fag-end">fag-end; the rump; hence, the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/lowest">lowest class.
6. n. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
7. 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.
8. n. See Graylag.
9. v. i. To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
10. v. t. To cause to lag; to slacken.
11. v. t. To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
12. n. One transported for a crime.
13. v. t. To transport for crime.