cleading

noun

clead·​ing

ˈklēdiŋ

plural -s

1

chiefly Scottish : clothing, attire

2

: a lining or covering of boards, planks, battens, or nonconducting material (as for lining a ship's cabin or a mine shaft or for insulating a boiler or engine cylinder) : lagging

Word History

Etymology

Middle English clething, cleding, from the gerund of clethen, cleden to clothe

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