lagging Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat
  2. verb hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
    dawdle; fall behind; fall back; lag.
  3. verb lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    incarcerate; jug; remand; lag; immure; gaol; jail; put away; imprison; put behind bars.
    • The suspects were imprisoned without trial
    • the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
  4. verb throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
    lag.
  5. verb cover with lagging to prevent heat loss
    lag.
    • lag pipes

WordNet

Lag"ging noun
Definitions
  1. (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.
  2. Lags, collectively; narrow planks extending from one rib to another in the centering of arches.

Webster 1913