Flagging
['flægiŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a walk of flagstones; 'the flagging in the garden was quite imaginative'.
(noun.) flagstones collectively; 'there was a pile of flagging waiting to be laid in place'.
Typist: Murray--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flag
(n.) A pavement or sidewalk of flagstones; flagstones, collectively.
(a.) Growing languid, weak, or spiritless; weakening; delaying.
Typed by Keller
Examples
- This magnificent indifference to placing his safety in peril for the second time, revived the flagging interest of the worshippers in the hero. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Let me amuse myself by teasing mamma: I will assert that she is flagging. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- My flagging spirits asked for something to speak to the affections; and not finding it, I drooped. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I was unharmed except for a slight bruise upon my forehead where it had struck the stone flagging as I fell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- No, said Grandfer Cantle, his countenance slightly flagging. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Editor: Nolan