jacketing
English edit
Verb edit
jacketing
- present participle and gerund of jacket
Noun edit
jacketing (countable and uncountable, plural jacketings)
- (countable, uncountable) Material used to make jackets.
- (countable, uncountable) A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
- (countable, UK, dialect, archaic) A thrashing; a beating.
- 1872, Jonathan's Bunkum. [A satire on the Alabama Question.], 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 edit
- (thrashing): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary