[f. JACKET sb. or v. + -ING1.]
1. = JACKET sb. 2.
1881. Greener, Gun, 309. This pipe is surrounded by a water jacketing, and kept cool by a running stream of water.
2. Material, as cloth, etc., for making jackets.
1882. in Ogilvie.
3. colloq. A beating. Also fig.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 92/1. I don’t work on Sundays. If I did, I’d get a jacketing.
1894. ‘J. S. Winter,’ Red Coats, 29. The very worst ‘jacketing’ which the Colonel was capable of administering.
