Also badging. [f. BAG v.2 + -ING1.] A particular mode of reaping pease, beans, and sometimes wheat: see the quotations.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 256. The Work-man taking a hook in each hand, cuts them with that in his right hand, and rolls them up … with that in his left, which they call bagging of Peas.
1830. Edin. Encycl., XIV. 234. Reaped … with a large toothless hook, in the manner called bagging.
1842. Brande, Dict. Art & Sc., Bagging, reaping corn or pulse with a hook separating the straw or haulm from the root by chopping instead of by a drawing cut.
1851. H. Stephens, Bk. of Farm, 4494. Reaping with the sickle is executed in England in a manner technically named bagging.
7. Comb. bagging-hook, badging-hook: the broad hook or sickle thus used; also called bagging-bill.
