jacketing

noun — 3 senses

jacketing

noun

1

Material used to make jackets.

2

A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.

3

UK, Archaic, Dialectal A thrashing; a beating.

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.1872, Jonathan's Bunkum. [A satire on the Alabama Question.], page 15:

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