laggin
Americannoun
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Usually laggins. the staves at the bottom of a barrel, cask, or other hooped vessel.
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the inner angle of a wooden dish, formed by the meeting of the sides and bottom.
Etymology
Origin of laggin
1580–90; lagg (< Old Norse lǫggr stave) + -in, variant of -ing 3
Example Sentences
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One day Lassie, while filming, was laggin’; Wouldn’t move — so they had to start draggin’.
From Washington Post
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Skipper Davy come with fair courage, laggin' a bit by the way, in the way o' lovers, thinks I, at such times.
From Project Gutenberg
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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When he gied the word, hieland foot was never slow and hieland bluid was never laggin'.
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