[? f. baggit, Sc. form of BAGGED (sense 1): cf. Holland, Pliny (1634), I. 303, of conies.] A salmon that has just spawned.
1848. W. & R. Chambers, Information, I. 687. Adult fish having spawned … are then termed kelts; the male fish is sometimes also called a kipper, and the female a shedder or baggit.
1863. H. C. Pennell, Angler-nat., 267. Kippers, and … Baggits—names by which they are frequently mentioned in Acts of Parliament.
1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. V. iv. § 9. Baggits generally descend the stream … when hooked.
