jacketing

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English

Verb

jacketing

  1. present participle and gerund of jacket

Noun

jacketing (countable and uncountable, plural jacketings)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Material used to make jackets.
  2. (countable, uncountable) A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
  3. (countable, UK, dialect, archaic) A thrashing; a beating.
    • 1872, Jonathan's Bunkum. , page 15:
      When they come home I'm more than half inclined to give them a good jacketing, but I'm glad to see them, and perhaps none the less because they cost me so much.

References

  • (thrashing): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary