daggers

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There were stars among the candidates of whom she might feel moderately certain, and there were also laggers whose success was doubtful.

From The Luckiest Girl in the School by Brazil, Angela

We watch them as they come, and as the last laggers pant by the mound we look westward and see the stampeders halting.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

And he caught a shout or two, the cries of men hazing on laggers.

From Rebel Spurs by Norton, Andre

An outlaw; whence by corruption laggers, people transported by sentence of law.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

She knew the importance of a high general average of play, and urged on several laggers.

From The Luckiest Girl in the School by Brazil, Angela