Dally behind

Publish date: 2024-06-22
•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.

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