Words Containing Lag
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Definition of lag
- a. - Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
- a. - Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
- a. - Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
- n. - One who lags; that which comes in last.
- n. - The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
- n. - The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a
steam engine, in opening or closing.
- 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.
- n. - See Graylag.
- v. i. - To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger
or loiter.
- v. t. - To cause to lag; to slacken.
- v. t. - To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See
Lag, n., 4.
- n. - One transported for a crime.
- v. t. - To transport for crime.
Syllable Information
The word lag is a 3 letter word that has 1 syllable . The syllable division for lag is: lag