[f. TAG v.1 and sb.1 + -ING1.] The action of TAG v.1

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1503.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., II. 202. For ane curpal and ane tee to the harnes sadill, tagging … of the samyn.

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1572.  in Feuillerat, Revels Q. Eliz. (1908), 159. For Tagging of Laces iiijd.

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1693.  Dennis, Imp. Crit., v. 50. ’Tis not the tagging of the Acts with a Chorus that properly makes a Tragedy one Body, but the Unity of the Action.

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1779.  Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 11 Jan. What trouble and tagging we had!

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a. 1890.  New Amer. Farm Bk., 436 (Cent. Dict.). Tagging or clotting is the removal of such wool as is liable to get fouled when the sheep are turned on to the fresh pastures.

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1906.  Athenæum, 2 June, 664/3. An occasional … tagging-out of a line.

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  b.  attrib., as † tagging iron, a tailor’s tool for tagging cloth.

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1436.  Exch. Rolls Scotl., IV. 681. Certis ferris scissorum dictis taging irynnis.

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