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