By Tim E Campbell Tales From the Grove â Joseph M. Ewing brought his large family to western Navarro County sometime in the 1890s. His oldest son James W. T. Ewing aka âUncle Jimâ...
lag noun [C/U]. âº a âdelay in the âperiod of âtime in which âevents âhappen: [C] There is often a lag between âbecoming âinfected and the first âsigns of the âillness. (Definition of lag from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press).
fail to keep pace, 1520s, earlier as a noun meaning last person (1510s), later also as an adjective (1550s; e.g. lag-mon last man), all of uncertain relationship, possibly from a Scandinavian source (cf. Norwegian lagga go slowly), or some dialectal version of last, lack, or delay. Related: Lag; lagging.