Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bagging"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bag \Bag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bagged}(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Bagging}]
1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag
game.
3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bagging \Bag"ging\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.
[Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bagging \Bag"ging\, n.
1. Cloth or other material for bags.
2. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
3. The act of swelling; swelling.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bagging
n : coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn: {sacking}]
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