jacketing

English

Alternative forms

• jacketting

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. [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

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