Definitions for the word, lag

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

(a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

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

(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.) One transported for a crime.

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

(n.) See Graylag.

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

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

(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.

(v. t.) To transport for crime.


4 words found in the Scrabble word, lag



Scrabble letter values
A is 1 points
B is 3 points
C is 3 points
D is 2 points
E is 1 points
F is 4 points
G is 2 points
H is 4 points
I is 1 points
J is 8 points
K is 5 points
L is 1 points
M is 3 points
N is 1 points
O is 1 points
P is 3 points
Q is 10 points
R is 1 points
S is 1 points
T is 1 points
U is 1 points
V is 4 points
W is 4 points
X is 8 points
Y is 4 points
Z is 10 points



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