Sc. and north. Also 6 laggyne, lagene, 8 legen, 8–9 laggen, 9 lagen. [f. ON. lǫgg of the same meaning: see LAG sb.2 The identification of the suffix is uncertain; it may be -ING2 (cf. LAGGING vbl. sb.3).]
1. The projecting part of the staves at the bottom part of a cask or other hooped vessel.
1587. Sc. Acts Jas. VI. (1814), III. 522/1. That … þe edge of þe bottom, entring within the laggyne be pairit outwith, toward þe nethir syde.
1893. in Northumbld. Gloss.
b. = LAG sb.2 1. ? Obs.
1825. Brockett, N. C. Words, Laggins, staves.
2. The inner angle of a wooden dish, between the sides and the bottom.
1786. Burns, Dream, xv. But or the day was done, I trow, The laggen they hae clautet Fu’ clean that day.
1802. R. Anderson, Cumberld. Ball., 34. When on the teable furst they set The butter’d sops, sec greasy chops, ’Tween lug and laggen! oh what fun, To see them girn and eat!
transf. 1842. Chr. Jrnl., 309. The ‘laggin’ of the Sowen-pot.
3. Comb.: laggen-gird, a hoop securing the bottom of a tub or wooden vessel. Phr. To cast a laggen-gird: to have an illegitimate child.
1718. Ramsay, Christis Kirke Gr., III. ix. I … coost a Legen-girth my sell, Lang or I married Tammie.
1821. Blackw. Mag., Jan., 406/2. Ye’ll souk the laggin-gird off the quaigh, and mar yere minstrelsy and our mirth.
