Meaning Of Lag

a.

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
a.

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

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
n.

One who lags; that which comes in last.
n.

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

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

See Graylag.
v. i.

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

To cause to lag; to slacken.
v. t.

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

One transported for a crime.
v. t.

To transport for crime.