jacketting
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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; […]"
- "[…] 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."
- "[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."
- "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, […]"
- "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."
- "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."