noun. Insulation used to prevent heat diffusion, as from a steam pipe.

noun. A wooden frame built especially to support the sides of an arch until the keystone is positioned.

noun. The act of walking or moving slowly, or of falling behind.

noun. In architecture, the planking, consisting of narrow strips, extending from one rib of the centering of an arch, vault, or tunnel to another, and affording direct support to the voussoirs until the arch or vault is closed in.

noun. In mining, strips of wood or light timbers laid across the stulls in the drifts to prevent fragments of rock from falling through.

noun. In machinery, same as deading.

noun. A covering for the face of a pulley, designed to increase its effective diameter or to augment the adhesion of the belt.

noun. Same as lag, n., 7.

noun. Nautical, the part of a barrel-stave beyond the head. Also spelled laggin.

noun. 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.

noun. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

adjective. falling behind, not keeping up the pace

adjective. Occurring after; indicating the later phase of

noun. The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection

noun. The material so used

verb. Present participle of lag.

noun. used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat

"Beware, the jobs market is what we call a lagging indicator."

lagging of the tides  

laggard  

lagging indicator  

insulant  insulating material  insulation  

bagging  bragging  dragging  flagging  nagging  

concurrent  leading  

Micawberish  afterthought  backward  bind  block  

cleading  deading  

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