vbl. sb. [In north. ME. clething, cleding, f. clethe, CLEAD v. + -ING1.] In its original sense now only dialectal; but in sense 2 it has passed into general use.]
1. Clothing, apparel. Sc. and north Eng.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 23982. Cleþing [Gött. cledinng] wil I tak of care.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter ci. 27 [cii. 26]. And als kleþinge elde sal alle þai.
c. 1340. Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 6943. Vermyn in helle salle be þair clethyng.
1483. Cath. Angl., 67. A Clethynge, amictus, vestitus.
1588. A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., 21. Thingis … as feiding, and cleathing.
c. 1600. Montgomerie, 3 Ventrous Knichts, 17. Our clething … And vncouth armes.
1728. Ramsay, Last Speech Miser, xii. What’s in either face or cleading, Of painted things.
1802. R. Anderson, Cumbld. Ball., 47. Gi’e us meat, drink, and cleading, it’s plenty for us.
1823. Galt, Entail, I. xxxv. 306. ‘This bonny wee new cleiding o’ clay.’ Ibid. (1830), Lawrie T., VI. viii. 289. Plain cleading does very well for plain folk.
c. 1850. Janet Hamilton, Crinoline, 32. I wad juist ha’e yer cleedin’ bien, genty, an’ doss.
2. Mech. A covering or casing (as of felt or timber), applied to prevent radiation of heat, or to give increased security.
Thus it is used of the jacket or lagging of a boiler, cylinder or pipe; the boarding that lines a shaft or tunnel, etc.
1849–50. Weale, Dict. Terms, Cleading, in locomotive engines, is usually made of narrow strips of timber, neatly fitted round the boiler and fire-box.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., Cleading … the planking or skin of a canal lock-gate.
1881. M. Reynolds, Engine-Driving, 5. Engines … with limbs of burnished Iron and cleading smoothly finished.
1881. Raymond, Mining Gl., Buntons, to which are nailed the boards forming the cleading or sheathing of a brattice.
