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
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When he gied the word, hieland foot was never slow and hieland bluid was never laggin'.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
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