ˈjacketing
[f. jacket n. or v. + -ing1.]
1. = jacket n. 2.
| 1881 Greener Gun 309 This pipe is surrounded by a water jacketing, and kept cool by a running stream of water. |
2. Material, as cloth, etc. for making jackets.
| 1882 in Ogilvie. |
3. colloq. A beating. Also fig.
| 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 92, I don't work on Sundays. If I did, I'd get a jacketing. 1894 ‘J. S. Winter’ Red Coats 29 The very worst ‘jacketing’ which the Colonel was capable of administering. |