Lag

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.

The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.

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.

See Graylag.

To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.

To cause to lag; to slacken.

To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.

One transported for a crime.

To transport for crime.