BAGGING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bagging mean? 

• BAGGING (noun)
  The noun BAGGING has 1 sense:

1. coarse fabric used for bags or sacks

  Familiarity information: BAGGING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAGGING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bagging; sacking

Hypernyms ("bagging" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Meronyms (substance of "bagging"):

jute (a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bagging"):

burlap; gunny (coarse jute fabric)

Derivation:

bag (put into a bag)

bag (hang loosely, like an empty bag)

 Context examples 

When he rose, however, Alleyne observed that his robe was much too long and loose for him in every direction, trailing upon the ground and bagging about his ankles, so that even with trussed-up skirts he could make little progress.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He knew that he must stand up to be introduced, and he struggled painfully to his feet, where he stood with trousers bagging at the knees, his arms loose-hanging and ludicrous, his face set hard for the impending ordeal.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)