jacketted

Adjective

jacketed (not comparable)

1. Dressed in a jacket.
   • For if a peer come like a porter jacketed,
     Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,1780, Kane O’Hara, “Address to the audience by Punch, on the opening of the Microcosm”, in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great, Dublin: Arthur Grueber, page iv
2. Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
   • One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...1861, Annual Reports, United States War Dept

Verb

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

1. 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

2. (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

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