jacketing

SayJAK-it-ing/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt.ɪŋ/

Noun pluraljacketings

4 meanings of jacketing

1
verb
Present participle and gerund of jacket.
Crews spent the week jacketing the exposed steam lines.
Jacketing the reactor vessel is the next step in the upgrade.
Note
The -ing form of a verb with two jobs: encasing something in a covering, and confining someone in a straitjacket. As a gerund it still takes a direct object (jacketing the steam lines). Once the word names the finished layer rather than the work, it has become the noun for the cover itself, which takes a plural, jacketings, and the gerund does not.
2
nouncountable or uncountable
A protective or insulating layer that covers an object.
The engineers inspected the jacketing on every section of pipe.
Damaged jacketing let moisture reach the insulation underneath.
Similarsheathing, casing, covering, cladding, lagging
3
nouncountable or uncountable
Fabric used in the making of jackets.
The tailor ordered heavy tweed jacketing for the new fall collection.
Good jacketing holds its shape after repeated wear.
Similarsuiting, fabric, cloth, material

Less common meaning

4
nounarchaicUKcountable
A thrashing or beating inflicted on someone.
He earned himself a fearful jacketing for stealing the apples.
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.]
Note
An old British dialect word for a hiding, most at home in the phrase give someone a good jacketing. In Jonathan's Bunkum, an 1872 satire on the Alabama Question, a speaker is "more than half inclined" to hand one out yet glad to see the culprits home. Today it reads as period or regional color. In plain modern prose it can be mistaken for the protective cover, so it fits best in dialogue or a historical voice.

jacketing is a form of jacket

jacket, verb: To enclose or encase an object in a jacket or other protective covering. Full entry

Forms: jacketjackets he/she/itjacketing -ing formjacketed past tense, past participle
Spelling: jacket → jacketing: add -ing

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