English Explanatory Dictionary

cleading

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cover to prevent heat radiation from a boiler, cylinder, etc. of a steam engine.
  2. The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

Word forms

cleading cleadings

Etymology

From Scots cleding, cleiding, from earlier cleething, claithing, cleithing (“clothing”), from Middle English clething (“clothing”). See cloth, clothing.

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