In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
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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