sacking, bagging
(noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks
bag
(verb) capture or kill, as in hunting; “bag a few pheasants”
bag
(verb) put into a bag; “The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries”
pocket, bag
(verb) take unlawfully
bulge, bag
(verb) bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge
bag
(verb) hang loosely, like an empty bag
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bagging
present participle of bag
bagging (countable and uncountable, plural baggings)
The act of putting anything into a bag.
Cloth or other material for bags.
(medicine) Use of BVM to ventilate a patient.
(colloquial) peak bagging
bagging (uncountable)
bootstrap aggregating
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Bag"ging, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]
Bag, n. Etym: [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.]
1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]
4. The quantity of game bagged.
5. (Com.)
Definition: A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one.
– To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.
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.
Bag, v. i.
1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
