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Definition of Laggers
1. lagger [n] - See also: lagger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laggers
Literary usage of Laggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Asbestos: Selected Cancers by Institute of Medicine (U. S.) (2006)
"1368 male laggers 1. -3000 male factory workers 2. ... -1400 laggers chrysotile
and crocidolite 1327 women various types of asbestos 31150 men traced and ..."
2. Lin̄: Or, Jewels of the Third Plantation by James Robinson Newhall (1880)
"Whether these laggers were lame or lazy, it was not easy to determine ; nor was
it of much consequence, as, according to the proverb, Providence provides ..."
3. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1880)
"... who had de a personal study of Dicky-laggers, and toed his information in
their special its, Dicky-lagging, it seems, is a slang term bird-catching. ..."
4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"They have their stragglers and " tender-foots," who do not go so far north to
breed as do the others. Still the laggers seem capable of a topical compromise ..."
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