cleading, vbl. n.
(ˈkliːdɪŋ)
[In north. ME. clething, cleding, f. clethe, clead v. + -ing1. In its original sense now only dialectal; but in sense 2 it has passed into general use.]
1. Clothing, apparel. Sc. and north Eng.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 23982 Cleþing [Gött. cledinng] wil I tak of care. a 1300 E.E. Psalter ci. 27 [cii. 26] And als kleþinge elde sal alle þai. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 6943 Vermyn in helle salle be þair clethyng. 1483 Cath. Angl. 67 A Clethynge, amictus, vestitus. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 21 Thingis..as feiding, and cleathing. c 1600 Montgomerie 3 Ventrous Knichts 17 Our clething..And vncouth armes. 1728 Ramsay Last Speech Miser xii, What's in either face or cleading, Of painted things. 1802 R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 47 Gi'e us meat, drink, and cleading, it's plenty for us. 1823 Galt Entail I. xxxv. 306 ‘This bonny wee new cleiding o' clay.’ 1830 ― Lawrie T. vi. viii. 289 Plain cleading does very well for plain folk. c 1850 Janet Hamilton Crinoline 32, I wad juist ha'e yer cleedin' bien, genty, an' doss. |
2. Mech. A covering or casing (as of felt or timber), applied to prevent radiation of heat, or to give increased security.
Thus it is used of the jacket or lagging of a boiler, cylinder or pipe; the boarding which lines a shaft or tunnel, etc.
| 1849–50 Weale Dict. Terms, Cleading, in locomotive engines, is usually made of narrow strips of timber, neatly fitted round the boiler and fire-box. 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., Cleading..the planking or skin of a canal lock⁓gate. 1881 M. Reynolds Engine-Driving 5 Engines..with limbs of burnished Iron and cleading smoothly finished. 1881 Raymond Mining Gl., Buntons, to which are nailed the boards forming the cleading or sheathing of a brattice. |