Lag(n.)
- The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
Lag(n.)
- The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
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.
Lagging(n.)
- The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading.
Lagging(n.)
- Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.