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lagging

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Lagging \Lag"ging\, n. (Mach.) The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steam cylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering of lags; -- called also deading and cleading . Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one ...

Usage examples of lagging.

It was further than she remembered and poor Bretuck was lagging behind more and more.

As the roof of the ranch house appeared on the far horizon, Kate thought, she had a million things to do, and she was lagging along, lost into the spiral of her own wandering thoughts of paradise.

Somewhere in the middle of the flight, with our conversation lagging badly, I reverted to a Hollywood-style of journalism that Killy instantly picked up on.

The target and towline, lagging behind on the turn, drifted up the starboard side.

Wartime thinking had become instantaneously obsolete, and the Navy was lagging a bit.

With mounted shiftas in advance, upon the flanks, and bringing up the rear there was no lagging and no chance to escape.

The Bear family were lagging far behind, that is, Coyote, Bear, and Antelope, because Fox Boy was keeping up with the other two and jog-trotting uphill.

The finance department was lagging behind commercial banking but was ahead of trading.

Lady Saltash had driven away in her barouche she thought that she would fill in the lagging time in this fashion.

Debevois tore a May-something 2077 date-sheet off his desk calendar, made a paper dart of it, and shot it at his lagging stenographer, who was stooping to return a folder of microfilm to a bottom file drawer.

Lagging a few feet behind the others, Vera was lost in her own thoughts, occasionally focusing her penlight on the dank red earth walls.

Y lagging behind drew a chunk of bread from under his foreboard, crammed it into his mouth and munched as he walked.

The immense two-story bulk of the stainless steel-clad boilers glinted in the light, surrounded by a myriad of pumps and steam lines shrouded in their white asbestos lagging.

The elections, however, reflected the weight of many sections who were lagging far behind the radicalised workers and peasants of the cities and surrounding areas.

The perspectives chosen for this narrative made necessary some rearrangements of detail, together with certain simplifications or modifications intended to eliminate repetitions, lagging, or confusion which only didactic explanation would have dispelled.