Lexicographical Neighbors of Laggin
Literary usage of Laggin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Tunnelling by Frederick Walter Simms, Daniel Kinnear Clark (1896)
"... between the two sides of the brickwork, AA) keys in the arch over the first
short cross or keying-in laggin; which done, he places a second cross laggin ..."
2. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"laggin—That part of a wooden vessel, in which the bottom rests. laggin-GIRD—That
gird round the " lagging or "staps" which compose the sides of the bottom ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"... c.,N. a brood of chickens laggin, G. the end of the stave or other fowls.
Lag-ma-last, c. always behind. Laird, s. landowner, yeoman. ..."
4. Scribners Monthly (1878)
"... 1 You alluz is a-laggin'— Mus" be you think T's dead, You's mos' too lazy to
draw yo' bref, Let 'lone drawin de waggin. De ladies don't submit 'at— Dis ..."
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