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Definition of Laggings
1. lagging [n] - See also: lagging
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laggings
Literary usage of Laggings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Construction of Large Tunnel Shafts: A Practical and Theoretical Essay by Joseph Haywood Watson Buck (1880)
"THE centre having been erected, and the laggings fixed, the face line should
first be marked thereon in the following manner. The position of the centre of ..."
2. Cases Decided in the House of Lords: On Appeal from the Courts of Scotland by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Patrick Shaw, Charles Hope Maclean (1836)
"... with the houses, laggings, &c., which some- Trustees of V. '•' time belonging
to James ... laggings ..."
3. A Text-book of Coal-mining by Herbert William Hughes (1892)
"The chief point to be observed here is that no hollow s pa ees .should lie left
between the laggings and the roof. If any exist. l hey must, lie tilled up ..."
4. Bridge and Tunnel Centres by Bach John McMaster (1875)
"In the later case it is the custom in practice to place all the laggings on the
ribs before commencing to turn the arch, by which means no small degree of ..."
5. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"The laggings were suspended from the top by iron rods to prevent a tendency to fall,
... In the shield, provision was made for driving laggings ahead, ..."
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