The 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.

Synonyms

slowdown , retardation , interim , meantime , meanwhile , stave , dawdle , fall back , fall behind , imprison , incarcerate , immure , put behind bars , jail , jug , gaol , put away , remand

Rhymes

ag , bag , bagg , bagge , blagg , brag , bragg , bundestag , clagg , codag , cragg , dag , drag , fag , fagg , flag , flagg , gag , gragg , greylag , hag , hagg , hagge , handbag , kragh , mag , mailbag , montag , nag , plagge , rag , ragtag , reflag , saddlebag , sag , sandbag , schlag , schrag , scrag , scragg , shag , slag , snag , sontag , sprag , spragg , stag , stagg , tag , tagg , tagge , wag , wagg , wragg , zag , zig-zag