jacketing

jacketing is the present participle and gerund of jacket.

Noun

jacketing (countable and uncountable, plural jacketings)

Material used to make jackets.
A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
(UK, archaic, countable, 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

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing or (rare) jacketting, simple past and past participle jacketed or (rare) jacketted)

To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment
Synonyms:

straitjacket
(transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
- ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads

What does jacketing mean?: Jacketing means material used to make jackets.
What is jacketing the present participle and gerund of?: Jacketing is the present participle and gerund of jacket.
What part of speech is jacketing?: Jacketing is a noun.
What is the plural of jacketing?: The plural of jacketing is jacketings.

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