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jacketings

jacketings is the plural of jacketing.

Meaning of jacketing

Noun

jacketing (countable and uncountable, plural jacketings)

  1. Material used to make jackets.
  2. A protective or insulating cover for an object; a jacket.
  3. (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

Questions about jacketings

What is jacketings the plural of?
Jacketings is the plural of jacketing.

Words near jacketings in the dictionary

  1. jacketed soft point
  2. jacketed soft points
  3. jacketed up
  4. jacketing
  5. jacketing up
  6. jacketings
  7. jacketless
  8. jacketlessness
  9. jacketlike
  10. jackets
  11. jackets up

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