jetting

Pluraljettings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of jet.

   The executives spent the summer jetting between offices in three countries.

   Steam came jetting from the valve the moment the seal failed.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every sense of the verb jet: steam spraying from a valve, executives flying between offices, and the older sense of strutting with a haughty gait. As a participle it follows be (they were jetting off to Rome). As a gerund it fills a noun slot (jetting abroad gets expensive). The t doubles before -ing. The same spelling is also the livestock-spraying noun, which can take a plural.

2. 2
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of spraying a jet of liquid onto something, especially livestock, to treat them against pests.

   Regular jetting through the warmer months protects the flock from flystrike.

   The farmer scheduled jetting well before the fly season began.

   Similarspraying

   Note

   A word from the stockyard that works both as a count noun and as a mass noun. Counted, it means one round of treatment: in bad fly years, the Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales warned in 1947, more than five jettings may be needed. Uncounted, it names the work itself, as when station hands spend days each month working at jetting. Use the plural for separate treatments and the bare form for the job.

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