Definition of Daggings

1. dagging [n] - See also: dagging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Daggings

daggerboard
daggerboards
daggered
daggerless
daggerlike
daggerman
daggermen
daggerpoint
daggerpoints
daggers
daggier
daggiest
daggily
dagging
daggings (current term)
daggle
daggle-tail
daggled
daggles
daggling
daggy
daglock
daglocks
dagmars
dagnabbit
dagnabit
dagnammit
dagnasty
dago

Literary usage of Daggings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manuals of Emergency Legislation: War Material Supplies Manual by Great Britain, Charles Archer Cook (1918)
"Notice is hereby given that it is the intention of the Army •Council to take possession of all daggings, Locks, Brokes and Fallen Wool grown or to be grown ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"... they are regularly at daggers- drawn. daggings [dag-eenz]. The clotted wool which is clipped off from sheep which have had the scour (qv). See GRIBBLE. ..."

3. Randigal Rhymes and a Glossary of Cornish Words by Joseph Thomas (1895)
"Heavily laden, a large quantity. " daggings of them." Dane. " Red-headed Dane." A term of contempt. Daps. Likeness, counterpart. ..."

4. The West Somerset Word-book: A Glossary of Dialectal and Archaic Words and by Frederick Thomas Elworthy (1886)
"... they are regularly at daggers- drawn. daggings [dag-eenz]. The clotted wool which is clipped off from sheep which have had the scour (qv). See GRIBBLE. ..."

5. Report of the Railways Department for the Year Ended 31 March by New Zealand Railways (1905)
"Owner's risk, half rate ... ... В Plaster, fibrous, New Zealand manufacture : Packed. Owner's risk ... ... A Sheep-daggings . ..."

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