laggin

or lag·en, lag·gen, leg·len

[ lag-uhn ]

noun

, Scot. and North England.

1. Usually laggins. the staves at the bottom of a barrel, cask, or other hooped vessel.
2. the inner angle of a wooden dish, formed by the meeting of the sides and bottom.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laggin¹

1580–90; lagg (< Old Norse lǫggr stave) + -in, variant of -ing ³

Example Sentences

One day Lassie, while filming, was laggin’; Wouldn’t move — so they had to start draggin’.

From Washington Post

Josh growled, glaring fiercely; 'it was 'im as put me away for my laggin'!

From Project Gutenberg

Up he mounted, never laggin', While we watched him through our tears, And his last thin bit of braggin' Came a-droppin' to our ears.

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Skipper Davy come with fair courage, laggin' a bit by the way, in the way o' lovers, thinks I, at such times.

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This parochial policy had been suggested to me by the beadle: "Ye maun luik to the driftwood first—pit oot the laggin' log frae the shore, ye ken," he said to me, following this up with an exhaustive narrative of the raftsman's life which had once been his.

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