Word Meaning

lag definition and meaning

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.

Crossword clues for lag

- Air travel fatigue, jet ...
- Be behind village removing the wicked
- Dawdle
- Delay
- Delay return of American lass
- Drop behind
- Fall behind
- Fall behind in school again
- Fall behind, dawdle
- Insulate
- Plane travel fatigue, jet ...
- Straggle
- Trail behind