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Bagging   /bˈægɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Bagging  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.


Bagging  n.  Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. (Eng.)


verb
Bag  v. t.  (past & past part. bagged; pres. part. 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."


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.)
3.
To become pregnant. (Obs.)





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"Bagging" Quotes from Famous Books



... among those who went about denouncing Republican chicanery at the Democratic club-rooms, no one took a loftier tone of moral indignation than he. The thought that he might lose so much of Halleck's money through the machinations of a parcel of carpet-bagging tricksters filled him with a virtue at which he afterwards smiled when he found that people were declaring their bets off. "I laid a wager on the popular result, not on the decision of the Returning ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner. At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging ...
— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville
... All the men at Sir Lionel Garrett's were keen sportsmen. Now, shooting is an amusement I was never particularly partial to. I was first disgusted with that species of rational recreation at a battue, where, instead of bagging anything, I was nearly bagged, having been inserted, like wine in an ice pail, in a wet ditch for three hours, during which time my hat had been twice shot at for a pheasant, and my leather gaiters once for ...
— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the matter entirely in his hands: so bidding them a very good morning, I signified my intention of calling again in ten days, when I expected he would be ready to move on; if not, I should be under the painful necessity of bagging him, as directed by ...
— The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth • Timothy Templeton
... the end the six cadets tramped around one edge of the clearing until they reached a point close to the spot where the rabbits had been seen. Here the bunnies were out in force, trying to find something to eat, and they had but little difficulty in bagging four of ...
— The Rover Boys on a Hunt - or The Mysterious House in the Woods • Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer)


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