[f. FOG v.1 + -ING1.] The action of the vb.: spec. (see quot. 1804).
1804. A. Young, Farmer’s Calendar, 325. It [Fogging] consists in keeping the whole growth of grass in upland meadows free from either scythe or stock, and eating it in the following winter.
1834. Brit. Husb., I. 484. There is an ancient practice respecting grass lands in some of the Welch counties,—provincially called fogging,—or keeping the land without stock from May or June to December, and in many instances to March.
1883. N. & Q., 10 Nov., 377. Cattle turned out in the winter season to find a precarious subsistence in the fields are said to ‘go a-fogging.’
