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Tag(g)ing, vbl. n. Also: taiging, tagine, tagone. [e.m.E. tagging (1572).]
1. The action of fitting a strap, esp. to harness, in sense 3 of Tag n. 1503 Treas. Acc. II 202.
For ane curpal and ane tee to the harnes sadill, tagging, mending and stopping of the samyn 1503 Treas. Acc. II 219.
For … tagging, ringyng, bukkylling, and mending of brokin sadilles 1504 Treas. Acc. II 438.
For ane new pannall to the quenis bottail sadill, tagging, bukkilling, and ringing of the samyn 1508 Treas. Acc. IV 129.
For tagging, grathing and bukkilling of the wild bestis, xx s. 1537 Treas. Acc. VI 335.
Taging 1539 Treas. Acc. VII 191.
For mending of the wardrop geir and taging of the kingis litycamp beddis 1621 Maxwell Mem. I 326.
For ane postpilȝen mending, chalmiring and tagging [pr. lagging] of the saidill
2. The material used as tags in senses 2 and 3 of Tag n. 1635 Edinb. Test. LVII 224b.
Certane taging for buittis 1656 Edinb. Test. LXVIII 298.
Taiging 1657–8 Dumbarton Common Gd. Acc. 227.
Thrie ells and a halff of tagging to be strings thairto [sc. a bag for the green cloth of the council seat] 1668 Orkney Antiq. Soc. V 39.
Four ell halfell of tagging, four ells of yellow and whyte countfitt pearlin 1668 Boyd Fam. P. No. 289 (14 ? May).
4 ell tagine … 8 once ballme 4 ell tagone
3. attrib. With irnys, a tool for ? cutting or attaching tags (Tag n. 2, 3). 1436 Exch. R. IV 681.
Certis ferris scissorum dictis taging irynnis 1446 Exch. R. V 228.
Pro v tagging irnys ad usus regis
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