Definitions for the word "lag" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a.
Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
One who lags; that which comes in last.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
See Graylag.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. i.
To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To cause to lag; to slacken.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. t.
To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
One transported for a crime.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. v. t.
To transport for crime.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. v.
(-gg-) fall behind; not keep pace. n. Delay. [origin uncertain]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
15. v.
(-gg-) enclose in heat-insulating material. n. Insulating cover. [old norse]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
16. n.
Slang habitual convict. [origin unknown]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
17. slang
a returned transport, or ticket-of-leave convict.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
18. slang
to void urine.—_Ancient Cant._ In modern slang to transport, as
regards bearing witness, and not in reference to the action of judge or
jury.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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