Definitions
1.nounA gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency.
2.nounDelay; latency.
3.nounOne sentenced to transportation for a crime.
4.nounA prisoner, a criminal.
5.nounA 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.
6.nounOne who lags; that which comes in last.
7.nounThe fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
8.nounA 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.
9.nounA bird, the greylag.
10.verbTo fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind
11.verbTo cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer)
12.verbTo transport as a punishment for crime.
13.verbTo cause to lag; to slacken.
14.adjectiveLate
15.adjectiveLast; long-delayed.
16.adjectiveLast made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.