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Bagging   /bˈægɪŋ/   Listen
Bagging

noun
1.
Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks.  Synonym: sacking.



Bag

verb
(past & past part. bagged; pres. part. bagging)
1.
Capture or kill, as in hunting.
2.
Hang loosely, like an empty bag.
3.
Bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge.  Synonym: bulge.
4.
Take unlawfully.  Synonym: pocket.
5.
Put into a bag.



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"Bagging" Quotes from Famous Books



... baseball and motoring spelled elegant leisure, even as their keen eyes and shrewd faces and low-voiced exchange of such terms as "stocks," and "sales" and "propositions" proclaimed them intent on bagging the day's business. Sam Hupp's next words brought him back to reality with ...
— Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock • Edna Ferber

... exclaimed the lighterman. "Here you are," and he drew forth a basket from under a pile of bagging at the foot of the ...
— Frank and Andy Afloat - The Cave on the Island • Vance Barnum

... month they traveled slowly on through a fertile country, abounding in animal life, bagging an elephant or a buffalo when short of meat. Lions are numerous, but the natives, believing that the souls of their dead chiefs enter the bodies of these animals, into which they also have the power, when living, of ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone

... me the best place," said Jackman. "I suppose it is because the laird thinks my experience in India entitles me to it; but I would much rather that Mabberly or Barret had got the chance, for I'm used to this sort of thing, and, after bagging elephants, I can afford to lay on my oars and see my friends ...
— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

... this day to call her Pyrrha) the figure of Smugg. Pyrrha was leaning against a barn, one foot crossed over the other, her arms akimbo, a string of her bonnet in her mouth, and her blue eyes laughing from under long lashes. Smugg stood limply opposite her, his trousers bagging over his half-bent knees, his hat in one hand, and in the other a handkerchief, with which, from time to time, he mopped his forehead. I could not hear (of course I did not wish to) what they were saying; indeed, I have my doubts if they said anything; ...
— Frivolous Cupid • Anthony Hope


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