"lagg" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /læɡ/ [General-American] Forms: laggs [plural]
Etymology: Compare the dialectal (Sussex, Somerset) English term(s) lag ("long, narrow, marshy meadow, usually by the side of a stream") and leg ("long, narrow meadow, gen. one which runs out of a larger piece of land"), apparently from leg (“limb”) (as of a body, or body of water). Compare also Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), usually attested with ch (whence English letch), but infrequently found as leg, lage in names. Etymology templates: {{m+|enm|leche|lech(e)|sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog}} Middle English lech(e) (“sluggish stream flowing through bog; bog”), {{m+|en|letch}} English letch Head templates: {{en-noun}} lagg (plural laggs)
  1. The very wet area around the perimeter of a (raised) bog, where water collects. Categories (topical): Wetlands Related terms: fen, morass, more in swamp
    Sense id: en-lagg-en-noun--Q~giQvZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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