lag vs tail

A bird, the greylag. 

A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins. 

A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (engineering) one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, such as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or steam engine. 

A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. 

Delay; latency. 

One who lags; that which comes in last. 

The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class. 

A prisoner, a criminal. 

To respond slowly. 

To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind. 

To cause to lag; to slacken. 

To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer). 

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird. 

All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on. 

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style. 

Sexual intercourse. 

Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”) 

A train or company of attendants; a retinue. 

The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse. 

A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing. 

The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail. 

A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies. 

Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs. 

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. 

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything. 

The penis of a person or animal. 

A tailing. 

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus. 

The distal tendon of a muscle. 

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile. 

One who surreptitiously follows another. 

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin. 

The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem. 

The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers. 

The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y. 

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage. 

The stern; the back of the kayak. 

The buttocks or backside. 

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails. 

The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind. 

A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. 

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part. 

To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into 

To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. 

To follow and observe surreptitiously. 

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded. 

To pull or draw by the tail.