lags

A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.

Delay; latency.

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

A prisoner, a criminal.

A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.

One who lags; that which comes in last.

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

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine.

A bird, the greylag.

To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind

To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)

To transport as a punishment for crime.

To cause to lag; to slacken.