lag

1. a. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. Source: opted

2. a. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. Source: opted

3. a. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. Source: opted

4. n. One who lags; that which comes in last. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

6. n. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

8. n. See Graylag. Source: opted

9. v. i. To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. Source: opted

10. v. t. To cause to lag; to slacken. Source: opted

11. v. t. To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4. Source: opted

12. n. One transported for a crime. Source: opted

13. v. t. To transport for crime. Source: opted

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