jacketting

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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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