To beat, to thrash.
1806. Col. Smith will never again way lay C[h]eetham with a large club, to dust his jacket.—The Balance, March 18, p. 82/1.
[1807. James Cheetham, who openly invited the French troops to come to New York, to scour it of federalists, and “trim the merchants’ jackets.”—Id., April 14, p. 114.]
1845. Asy with your stick; it come on my toe. I’ll dust your jacket if you do it again.—J. B. Buckstone, ‘Green Bushes,’ i. 1. (N.E.D.)
