jacketting

English

Verb

jacketting

  1. present participle and gerund of jacket

Noun

jacketting (countable and uncountable, plural jackettings)

  1. Alternative spelling of jacketing.
    • 1837, Albany Fonblanque, “Noble Sports”, in England under Seven Administrations. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, “The Wellington Ministry” section, page 317:
      If another man was seized with the whim of green jacketting, gold girdling, and white feathering himself, the extreme probability is, that the little boys would hoot and pelt him as he passed along, and that his next of kin would change his clothing for a strait-waistcoat; […]
    • 1894, Giovanni Francesco Straparola, translated by W[illiam] G[eorge] Waters, “The Third Fable. Bertholdo of Valsabbia Has Three Sons, All of Them Hunchbacks and Much Alike in Seeming. […]”, in The Nights of Straparola […], volume I, London: Lawrence and Bullen […], →OCLC, […] Night the Fifth, page 252:
      […] Madonna Felicetta asked Ser Zambo to let her have a silken lining wherewith to repair her pelisse, […] went on insisting that she must have it, and they one and the other worked themselves up into such a fury that they were well nigh blinded with rage. Whereupon Ser Zambo, according to his wont, began to thump her with his stick, and gave her as shrewd a jacketting of blows as she could bear, and she lay half dead.
    • 1899, Maurus Jókai, translated by R. Nisbet Bain, “Boredom”, in The Poor Plutocrats […] (Works of Maurus Jókai, Hungarian Edition), New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 9:
      [H]e was to put all the dishes carefully away, as he should want to see them again on the morrow. The footman conscientiously obeyed this command—which was given regularly every day—and locked up all the dishes well aware that he would get a sound jacketting if he failed to produce a single one of them when required to do so.
    • 1904 July 16, “15,653 of 1903.—H. Parkinson: Appliances for Drying, Mixing, and Preparing Tar Macadam.”, in H[enry] H[eathcote] Statham, editor, The Builder […], volume LXXXVII, number 3206, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Patents” section, page 75, column 2:
      According to the invention, the appliance comprises concentric cylinders, constituting a steam jacketting, within which is another cylinder, the internal surface of which is provided with spaced vanes or blades, […]
    • 1911 November 16, Sydney Reid, “The Old Ballad Folk”, in The Independent, volume LXXI, number 3285, New York, N.Y.: The Independent […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1098:
      A good fight is always more exciting than a hanging. But the Sheriff of Nottingham was no gentleman, he hadn’t a drop of sporting blood in his veins, and he did not care a farthing how much he disappointed the audience. […] Ah, but the Sheriff did not reckon on Little John and other stout fellows appearing and releasing Will Stukely, and giving the officer and his men a good jacketting.
    • 1928 December, “Notes on the Introduction of Steel in Railway Equipment”, in Railway and Locomotive Engineering […], volume XLI, number 12, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page 355, column 1:
      In 1859 the first iron passenger car was completed at the shop of Wm. Cundell, Paterson, N. J. Mr. Cundell conducted a sheet iron and tinsmith business primarily to supply the various locomotive builders of Paterson with smoke stacks, head lights, stamped brass letter and numbers, boiler jacketting and ornamentations thought necessary in those days by railroads.
    • 1998, Canadian Committee on Building and Fire Codes, “Building Services in Fire Separations and Fire Rated Assemblies”, in British Columbia Building Code, 1998, Victoria, B.C.: Crown Publications Inc., →ISBN, part 3 (Fire Protection, Occupant Safety and Accessibility), page 55, column 1:
      Single conductor metal sheathed cables with combustible jacketting that are more than 25 mm in overall diameter are permitted to penetrate a fire separation required to have a fire-resistance rating without being incorporated in the assembly at the time of testing as required by Article 3.1.9.2., provided the cables are not grouped.
    • 2001, S R Majumdar, “Hydraulic Cylinder”, in Oil Hydraulic Systems: Principles and Maintenance, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, published 2003, →ISBN, chapter 15 […], page 512:
      For cylinders working in a corrosive atmosphere, the outside of the cylinder tube may be protected either by surface coating or by jacketting in a corrosion resistant material.
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