[f. prec. sb.]
1. trans. To cover with or enclose in a jacket (in various senses of the sb.).
1861. Times, 13 May, 5/4. The cylinders [of the Mooltan’s engines] are ‘jacketed,’ as it is termed—that is, there is an upper pair of 43 inches’ diameter, in which the dry steam is first used, at a pressure of 20lb., and an outer cylinder of 96 inches’ diameter, where it is worked expansively.
1884. F. J. Britten, Watch & Clockm., 65. The ‘ice-box’ is also a metal chamber … jacketed all over with a non-conductor.
1889. Farmer, Americanisms, s.v., In Government offices, to jacket a document is, after scheduling, to enclose it with other papers referring to the same subject.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 25 Feb., 1/3. A Bible jacketed in American cloth upon the table. Ibid. (1900), 15 Aug., 7/1. Unfortunately, there are forty-five waiters to only forty jackets,… perhaps … the managers will be able to scrape together sufficient money to jacket the unhappy five.
b. slang. (See quot.)
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., To jacket a person … is more properly applied to removing a man by underhand and vile means from any birth or situation he enjoys, commonly with a view to supplant him.
2. dial. or colloq. To beat, thrash. (Cf. the phrases s.v. JACKET sb. 1 f.) See also JACKETING 3.
1875. Sussex Gloss., s.v., ‘I’ll jacket him when he comes in.’
1877. N. W. Linc. Gloss.
1896. in Farmer, Slang.
