also 7 bagge, 9 badge. [Origin not ascertained: cf. BATCH.] To cut corn, pease, or beans, with a bagging or badging hook: see quot. 1865.
a. 1697. Aubrey, Wilts. MS. R. Soc., 123 (Halliw.). They cannot mowe it with a scythe, but they cutt it with such a hooke as they doe bagge pease with.
1830. Edin. Encycl., XIV. 234. They [beans] are bagged like wheat.
1865. Gard. & Farmer’s Vade M., II. 123. The corn is either mown, or reaped, or bagged. In ‘bagging,’ as it is called, a heavy hook is used: a wisp of straw is cut first and doubled up, or a stick is used instead, held in the left hand, and with the right the heavy hook is driven against the corn close to the ground, and so, by successive strokes, the corn is cut, perhaps a foot deep, up against the standing crop; the wisp or stick in the left hand serving to guide it to a standing place.
1877. E. Warburton, Poems, 23. Sweet to see cornfields badged, and wheatsheaf bound.
