baggern.
a. One who encloses in bags; spec. a miser (obsolete).
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > picking or gathering > [noun] > hop-picking > hop-bagger
bagger1740
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > cutting, reaping, or mowing > reaper or mower
reapmanOE
reaperOE
mower1225
shearer1318
puller1332
winner1352
repstera1450
harvestman1552
scytheman1577
harvester1589
sickler1638
messor1656
cradler1766
grass mower1779
thraver1813
reapa1825
bagger1844
cradle-man1889
1740 F. Peck Mem. Life & Actions O. Cromwell 32 He spent, and lookt for no reward, He cold not play the bagger.
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 4 [The man who treads the hops into the bags] is called the bagger.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of 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.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > packing, stuffing, or filling equipment
pack-sheet1533
packing sheet1545
packer1846
shim1860
parcelling machine1875
stuffer1875
woolpacker1875
filler1895
bagger1896
shimmer-
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.
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