Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
LAGGING
lagging
(noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat
LAG
lag
(verb) cover with lagging to prevent heat loss; “lag pipes”
lag
(verb) throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins
lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind
(verb) hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; “The suspects were imprisoned without trial”; “the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
from lag
Adjective
lagging (comparative more lagging, superlative most lagging)
falling behind, not keeping up the pace
Occurring after; indicating the later phase of
Coordinate terms: concurrent, leading
Noun
lagging (usually uncountable, plural laggings)
The covering of something with strips of felt, wood etc, either as insulation or for protection.
The material so used.
(slang, countable) A prison sentence.
Verb
lagging
present participle of lag
Source: Wiktionary
Lag"ging, n.
1. (Mach.)
Definition: 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.
LAG
Lag, a. Etym: [Of Celtic origin: cf. Gael. & Ir. lagweak, feeble, faint, W. llag, llac, slack, loose, remiss, sluggish; prob. akin to E. lax, languid.]
1. Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy. [Obs.] Came too lag to see him buried. Shak.
2. Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end. "The lag end of my life." Shak.
3. Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior. [Obs.] "Lag souls." Dryden.
Lag, n.
1. One who lags; that which comes in last. [Obs.] "The lag of all the flock." Pope.
2. The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. The common lag of people. Shak.
3. The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
4. A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: See Graylag. Lag of the tide, the interval by which the time of high water falls behind the mean time, in the first and third quarters of the moon; -- opposed to priming of the tide, or the acceleration of the time of high water, in the second and fourth quarters; depending on the relative positions of the sun and moon.
– Lag screw, an iron bolt with a square head, a sharp-edged thread, and a sharp point, adapted for screwing into wood; a screw for fastening lags.
Lag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Lagging.]
Definition: To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter. "I shall not lag behind." Milton.
Syn.
– To loiter; linger; saunter; delay; be tardy.
Lag, v. t.
1. To cause to lag; to slacken. [Obs.] "To lag his flight." Heywood.
2. (Mach.)
Definition: To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
Lag, n.
Definition: One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]
Lag, v. t.
Definition: To transport for crime. [Slang, Eng.] She lags us if we poach. De Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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