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BAGGING

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coarse fabric used for bags or sacks

Synonyms:

bagging; sacking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bagging" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Meronyms (substance of "bagging"):

jute (a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bagging"):

burlap; gunny (coarse jute fabric)

Derivation:

bag (put into a bag)

bag (hang loosely, like an empty bag)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb bag

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