Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fagging"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fag \Fag\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fagged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fagging}.] [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber,
drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to f[=a]ch devoted to death,
OS. f?gi, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr
fated to die, AS. f?ge, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the
price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.]
1. To become weary; to tire.
Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began
to fag. --G.
Mackenzie.
2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge.
Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. --Coleridge.
3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery,
for another, as in some English schools.
{To fag out}, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a
rope, or the edge of canvas.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fagging \Fag"ging\, n.
Laborious drudgery; esp., the acting as a drudge for another
at an English school.
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