nickeling

Verb

nickel (third-person singular simple present nickels, present participle (US) nickeling or (UK) nickelling, simple past and past participle (US) nickeled or (UK) nickelled)

1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.
2. (UK, World War II) To distribute airborne leaflet propaganda.
   • The 422d Bombardment Squadron extended the scope of its operations considerably in April and "attacked" Norwegian targets with the leaflet bomb. The number of cities nickeled per mission also increased until it was common for fifteen to twenty-five to be scheduled as targets for a five-plane...1948, The Army Air Forces in World War II, volume 3, Office of Air Force History, →ISBN, pages 496–497

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Noun

nickelling (uncountable)

1. The metallic fouling of a gun's bore with fragments of bullet casing.
   • Further trials were carried out to establish their accuracy life and whether they developed any tendency to nickelling under Service conditions.1962, Edmund George Barton Reynolds, The Lee-Enfield Rifle, page 158