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▪ I. lagging, vbl. n.1|ˈlægɪŋ|
[f. lag v.2 + -ing1.]
The action or condition of lag v.2
1600Holland Livy vi. vii. 221 What meanes this strange and unwonted lagging behind? 1862Dana Man. Geol. 41 The westward tropical flow is due simply to a slight lagging of the waters. 1867Denison Astron. without Math. 123 This is called the priming and lagging of the tides. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 915 Cardiac irregularity is a frequent consequence of tobacco-smoking, lagging and intermission being the earlier forms of it.
▪ II. lagging, vbl. n.2|ˈlægɪŋ|
[f. lag v.3 + -ing1.]
A sentence or term of imprisonment or penal servitude. Also attrib. (see quot. 1812).
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Lagging matter, any species of crime for which a person is liable on conviction to be transported... Speaking of a person likely to be transported they say lagging dues will be concerned. 1838Dickens O. Twist xliii, If they do [get fresh evidence], it's a case of lagging. 1844Port Phillip Patriot 22 July 2/6, I remained with him five years after I served my ‘lagging’.
▪ III. lagging, vbl. n.3|ˈlægɪŋ|
[f. lag v.4 + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. lag4.
1. The action of covering a boiler, an arch, a wall, etc., with strips of wood or felt.
1870Eng. Mech. 11 Feb. 516/1 This may be..prevented by careful ‘lagging’ with non-conductors of heat. 1895Hatch & Chalmers Gold Mines of Rand vi. 121 Side lagging is seldom necessary after the first 50 to 100 feet.
attrib.1884Leisure Hour Sept. 531/2 The old engine-house was exchanged for part of the old lagging-shop.
2. pl. and collect. sing. The material with which this is done. Also attrib.
1851Pract. Mech. Jrnl. III. 242 The boiler is covered with lagging and Russia sheet iron. 1867‘Ben Brierley’ Marlocks Merriton 68 The fence (his own making) was but a rickety fabric of ‘laggins’, worn-out treadles [etc.]. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Laggins, the part of the wooden frame work upon which the stones are laid when building an arch. 1870Spon's Dict. Engineering ii. 479 The term bolster has also been applied to the pieces of timber placed across the ribs of the centering of an arch to support the voussoirs; but these are more generally known by the name of laggings. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Lagging, planks, slabs, or small timber placed over the caps or behind the posts of the timbering.
▪ IV. lagging, ppl. a.|ˈlægɪŋ|
[f. lag v.2 + -ing2.]
That lags; behindhand, lingering, loitering, tardy.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 214 Foure lagging Winters, and foure wanton springs End in a word. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. v. i. §4 The lagging money which was last sent thither. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 25 Come, Lucifer, drive on the lagging Day. 1735Somerville Chase i. 280 A lagging Line Of babling Curs [shall] disgrace thy broken Pack. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xxxiii, A lofty lay Seem'd thus to chide his lagging way. 1832H. Martineau Demerara i. 6 The slaves came with a lagging step. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxxiii, The eager woman hastened his lagging mouth.
Hence ˈlaggingly adv.
c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. III. 50 Moves heavily and laggingly along. 1872Lever Ld. Kilgobbin xxxvi. (1875) 210 Thoughts that came laggingly. |