BAGGING

sacking, bagging

(noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks

BAG

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


Etymology 1

Verb

bagging

present participle of bag

Noun

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

Etymology 2

Noun

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

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



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