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▪ I. bagging, vbl. n.1|ˈbægɪŋ|
[f. bag v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb bag in different senses. †a. Becoming pregnant. Obs.
1611in Cotgr.
b. Bulging; hanging in slack folds.
1698Tyson in Phil. Trans. XX. 130 The pouching or bagging out at both Extreams. 1879Rutley Stud. Rocks iii. 13 Partial flexure or bagging down of strata.
c. Packing in bags or sacks. Also concr., that which is bagged; and with off.
1711Act 9 Anne in Lond. Gaz. No. 4874/2 Notice as to such Hops..twenty four Hours before every Days bagging of the same. 1737Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Lupulus, The common Method of Bagging [Hops] is as follows. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 755 It is this..that induces the planter to make a distinction in the bagging of the article. 1900Daily News 17 Sept. 2/7 Hops...At market to-day there was a fair supply of early baggings on offer. 1907Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 5/1 Bagging and cartage are by no means the only charges that the merchant has to meet. 1958Farmer & Stockbreeder 30 Sept. 74 Operators pick the potatoes off..the elevator-cum-picking table and throw them on the cross conveyor for discharge at the bagging-off point.
▸ a. Hunting. The killing of game. Cf. bag v.1 5.
1836Every Body's Album 1 July 15 Can any one believe that..the bagging of a bird..can afford these men any real enjoyment? 1872Appletons' Jrnl. 6 Jan. 26/2 Tigers, of course, are the fiercest and noblest game of the country, and on one occasion Colonel Cumming records the bagging of ten in five days. 1936Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 35 52 The bagging of one duck was quite an event, for at the first shot off they went to some other swamp. 2004St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 27 Oct. c1 Corbett's hunting and shooting accomplishments include the bagging of one of the largest Cape buffalo..ever taken.
b. The securing of the services of a person, company, etc.; the capture of someone or something.
1844Dickens Let. 9 May (1977) IV. 123, I do not like to ask men to act as stewards at a dinner over which I preside, otherwise I could have had no possible objection to the bagging of Talfourd and Richard Monckton. 1886J. A. Logan Great Conspiracy xiii. 284 McDowell's plan..comprehends not only the bagging of Bonham, but an immediate subsequent demonstration, by Tyler, upon Centreville and beyond. 1933Washington Post 2 Feb. 13/3 Devine, whose expeditions with the Pittsburg Pirates resulted in the bagging of Ray Kremer. 1989Investors Chron. 27 Jan. 42/3 But by far the most strategic move has been the eventual bagging of Pillsbury, the US foods giant for $5.75bn.
▸ Austral. colloq. An instance of disparagement or criticism.
1969Daily Tel. (Sydney) 20 Mar. 6/6 In the last couple of decades the poor old Poms have taken such a bagging from the rest of the world. 1975Daily Mirror (Sydney) 15 May 11/1 The only publicity I ever got in the first 12 months was a baggin'. 1986Bulletin (Sydney) 22 Apr. 73/2 Telecom is a pretty suspect outfit, deserving of the consistent bagging it gets from exasperated subscribers. 2001Observer 21 Oct. (Life Suppl.) 67/1 ‘You're going to give us a bagging, aren't you?’ For all their bravado and self-confidence, Australian winemakers are surprisingly sensitive to criticism.
▪ II. ˈbagging, vbl. n.2
Also badging.
[f. bag v.2 + -ing1.]
A particular mode of reaping pease, beans, and sometimes wheat: see the quotations.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 256 The Work-man taking a hook in each hand, cuts them with that in his right hand, and rolls them up..with that in his left, which they call bagging of Peas. 1830Edin. Encycl. XIV. 234 Reaped..with a large toothless hook, in the manner called bagging. 1842Brande Dict. Art & Sc., Bagging, reaping corn or pulse with a hook..separating the straw or haulm from the root by chopping instead of by a drawing cut. 1851H. Stephens Bk. of Farm 4494 Reaping with the sickle is executed in England in a manner technically named bagging.
Comb. bagging-hook, badging-hook: the broad hook or sickle thus used; also called bagging-bill.
▪ III. ˈbagging, n.1 dial.
[? orig. a vbl. n. expressing the act of carrying food in a bag, or transf. from a horse's feed carried in a bag.]
Used in the northern counties of England for food eaten between regular meals; now, esp. in Lancashire, an afternoon meal, ‘afternoon tea’ in a substantial form.
1750J. Collier in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hoo'll naw cum agen till baggin' time. 1850Bamford ibid., In the afternoon, oatcake and cheese or butter, or oatcake and buttermilk, sufficed for bagging. 1851in Cumberld. Gloss. 1863E. Waugh Lanc. Songs 29 Th' baggin' were ready, an' o' lookin' sweet. 1879in Temple-Bar Mag. Jan. 4 ‘Baggin’ is not only lunch, but any accidental meal coming between two regular ones.
b. Comb., as bagging-time.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 387 Thirst must be quenched with tea at bagging-time. 1884Pall Mall G. 11 Sept. 4/2.
▪ IV. bagging, n.2|ˈbægɪŋ|
[f. bag n.1 + -ing1; cf. sacking, towelling, wrappering.]
Coarse woven fabric out of which bags are made.
1732Acc. Workhouses 124 The spinning and weaving of hop bagging. 1834H. Martineau Demerara vi. 78 Making the bagging and packages for our coffee at home. 1873Echo 19 May 4/3 Paper made from old jute bagging.
b. attrib. or adj.; and in comb., as bagging-factory.
1732Acc. Workhouses 165 The wool is sorted two ways, viz. into fine and baggin. 1850Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. ii. 10 Hired out by his master to work in a bagging-factory.
▪ V. ˈbagging, ppl. a.
[f. bag v.1 + -ing2.]
Bulging out, hanging in loose bag-like folds.
1598Florio, Sócchi, a kind of socke..or bagging shooe vsed in old time. 1697Dryden Virg. Eclog. ii. 53 They drein two bagging Udders every day. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 434 Jews with their bagging pantaloons. |