Cant. [f. LAG v.3 or sb.5] A convict undergoing or having undergone penal servitude.
1819. Sporting Mag., III. 230/2. The laggers had an interest as to the result.
1880. Sir S. Lakeman, What I saw in Kaffir-land, 18–9. Many of them were what they termed at the Cape, laggers—that is to say, men who, having got away from Norfolk Island, or other penfolds for black sheep, lag behind, under the guardianship of Dutch laws.
