ˈbagger
[f. bag v. + -er1.]
a. One who encloses in bags; spec. a miser (obs.).
| 1740 Collect. Sir T. Scot 32 in Peck Cromwell, He spent, and lookt for no reward, He cold not play the bagger. 1763 Museum Rusticum I. 4 [The man who treads the hops into the bags] is called the bagger. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1074 The best baggers use a wooden hook in the left hand to collect and bring together the cut wheat in a bundle-like shape to the ground. |
b. A machine that encloses (something) in bags.
| 1896 Daily News 26 Sept. 3/5 A combined system of boring ships and baggers was invented [for canal building]. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Apr. 361/1 Mechanisation [for potato harvesting] in the form of mechanical planters, diggers, and in some cases baggers. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 104 The bagger model..has established its position as the best buy for the farmer. |