cabbagingn.1
/ˈkabᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkæbɪdʒɪŋ/ Now rare.
The growth or formation of a head or heart (by a cabbage, lettuce, etc.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > cabbage or kale > head > forming a head
cabbaging1670
buttoning1799
loafing1818
1670 L. Meager Eng. Gardener 177 Those sown about James-tide are for the most part more sure, and earlier in cabaging.
1718 R. Bradley Gentleman & Gardeners Kal. 14 Transplant Lettuce for cabbaging and to stand for Seed.
1778 J. Abercrombie Universal Gardener & Botanist at Lactuca Tying up Lettuces to forward their cabbaging, and to whiten and render them crisp, is often practised to the early spring and summer crops, particularly coss Lettuces.
1806 B. M'Mahon Amer. Gardener's Cal. 124 For cabbaging or heading, you may sow the white Silicia, grand admiral, large mogul, brown Dutch, or New-Zealand lettuces, all of which form good hard heads.
1849 J. M. Wilson Rural Cycl. III. 135/1 When it is wished to forward the cabbaging of cos lettuce, the leaves are sometimes tied together, in the manner practised with endive.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) I. Cabbaging, heading or hearting.
2006 Resource News Internat. (Nexis) 20 June Early seeded canola was generally in the cabbaging to bolting stage with some fields starting to flower.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
cabbagingn.2
/ˈkabᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkæbɪdʒɪŋ/ colloquial.
The action of cabbage v.2; pilfering, purloining; (also) plagiarizing. attributive in earliest use.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [noun]
micherya1393
mitchinga1393
picking1402
purloining1417
pilferc1425
pickery1460
pilfering1548
filching1567
lurching1570
pilfery1573
petty larceny1578
filching-tradea1592
prigging1591
filchery1607
nimming1607
sneaking-budge1699
pilferage1732
cabbaging1774
weeding1819
pilferment1823
crib1855
filch1877
souveniring1919
1707 Diverting Muse 11 You Cabbaging Thief.
1774 'T. Medley' Hotch Potch 25 An eminent Taylor not to be paralleled in Pandæmonium for his skill in cabbaging.
1844 Bentley's Mag. Oct. 373 ‘It was a house of call for tailors, and that is the reason that I left it.’ ‘I suppose he did not approve of the cabbaging that was going on there.’
1868 Rep. Sel. Comm. Sci. Instr. 47/2 If these papers are to be used the day after, you may have any amount of cabbaging and cribbing that anybody is immoral enough to take up with.
1924 Amer. Mercury July 356/2 The cabbaging of enemy patents.
1998 Independent (Nexis) 18 July 8 Lynn is worried about a factory that has nicked some AC fabric in an episode of what is known in the trade as 'cabbaging'.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
cabbagingadj.
/ˈkabᵻdʒɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkæbɪdʒɪŋ/ Now rare.
Esp. of a variety of cabbage, lettuce, etc.: that forms a head or heart.
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1855 C. McIntosh Bk. Garden II. 110/1 To these kales we may add the imperial hearting or cabbaging kale; and we believe the German cabbaging borecole of some seed-lists to be the same.
1908 J. Weathers Pract. Guide School, Cottage, & Allotment Gardening 204/1 The Common Corn Salad is generally grown but there are other varieties known as Round-leaved, Cabbaging and Italian.
1925 Gardeners' Chron. 26 Sept. 253/2 One half of the page contains a reproduced photograph showing a large field of the Cabbaging variety [of Dandelion].
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