subs. (common).—A thrashing; a reprimand.

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  1851–61.  H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, i. 92. I don’t work on Sundays. If I did, I’d get a JACKETING.

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  1862.  E. WOOD, The Channings, III. xvii. You may look, Mr. Tod, but I’ll be after giving ye a JACKETING for ye’re pains.

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  1871.  Durham County Advertiser, 10 Nov. The quiet man told him about having found it, and got a JACKETING for not having come direct and reported it at once.

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  1883.  Graphic, May 26, 531, 3. Who the moment before had been administering a vigorous JACKETING to him anent her neglected wardrobe.

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  1893.  P. H. EMERSON, Signor Lippo, xvi. I eased up, and he gave me a JACKETING.

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