from Middle English clething (“clothing”). See cloth, clothing. <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">cleadings</span>) A jacket or outer covering to prevent radiation of heat, as from...
<span class="searchmatch">cleadings</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span> descaling...
decaling present participle and gerund of decal <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span>...
victualling or provision of garments. English: <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span> Scots: cleidin, cleeding, cleiding, <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span> “clēthing, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich...
present participle <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span>, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">cleaded</span>) (transtive, Northen England, Scotland) To clothe. <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span> clead (uncountable)...
descalings) The removal of scale from the surface of a metal, especially from the inner surfaces of boilers etc. removal scale from a boiler <span class="searchmatch">cleadings</span>...
clathing; equivalent to clothe + -ing. Cognate with Scots cleeding, cleiding, <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span> (“clothing”), Dutch kleding (“clothing”), German Kleidung (“clothing”)...
children are ready to rise at a ca'; / Your fopdoodle breeding and mountebank <span class="searchmatch">cleading</span>, / John Bull he abhors you, flagaries an' a'. 1996, Joan Elizabeth Goodman...