lag

Late.

Some tardy cripple bore the countermand, / That came too lag to see him buried.

Last; long-delayed.

the lag end of my life

Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.

We know your thoughts of us, that laymen are lag souls, and rubbish of remaining clay.

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

Although this work is now presented to the world at large, people who read through it before publication severally raised some issues that should be addressed. These resolve around the lag between the field research and the publication of the monograph, a period of rather more than two decades; the use or non-use of various academic forms of terminology, frames of reference, modes of analysis, or "theoretical paradigms"; and my use of the present tense to describe a place that is most certainly not that way now.

During the Second World War, for instance, the Washington Senators had a starting rotation that included four knuckleball pitchers. But, still, I think that some of that was just a generational lag.

Delay; latency.

Whatever the symptom, lag is a drag. But what causes it? One cause is delays in getting the data from your PC to the game server.

When the lag is low, 2 or 3 seconds perhaps, Internet chatters seem reasonably content.

One sentenced to transportation for a crime.

A prisoner, a criminal.

On both these occasions I had ended up behind the bars, and you might suppose that an old lag like myself would have been getting used to it by now.

He sat with his great head tipped forward, scowling with a lag's sullenness, and I swear he had closed off his hearing with his thinking and hadn't heard us coming. 'Father,' said Pym.

A period of imprisonment.

I wasn't scared any more; the second lag wasn't easy, but I wasn't really scared of anything. […] So in my later lags, when I walked into prison everyone had heard about me.

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

Behind her farre away a Dwarfe did lag, / That lasie seemd in being ever last, / Or wearied with bearing of her bag / Of needments at his backe.

Lazy beast! / Why last art thou now? Thou hast never used / To lag thus hindmost

To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material.

Spun glass mattresses are used for lagging the boiler, which has three Ross pop safety valves on the front ring.

Outside seems old enough: / Red brick, lagged pipes, and someone walking by it / Out to the car park, free.

To respond slowly.

My phone is starting to lag.

To transport as a punishment for crime.

She lags us if we poach.

To arrest or apprehend.

"We must get the old dear out," said Lord Roxton to Malone. "He'll be had for manslaughter if we don't. What I mean, he's not responsible - he'll sock someone and be lagged for it."