noun. The wood composing the box of a mine-car.

noun. The wooden portion of a rope-drum on which the rope is coiled.

noun. . Clothing; that which clothes or covers; a covering.

noun. In engines:

noun. The jacket or outer covering of the cylinder, or the covering of hair-felt put on steam-pipes to prevent the radiation of heat. Also called clothing and lagging.

noun. A timber casing inclosing the boiler of a locomotive engine and the fire-box.

noun. Any kind of plank covering, such as the slating-boards of a roof, the boards of a floor, the plank lining of a pit-shaft, the planking of a coffer-dam, etc.

noun. In mining, deal boarding for brattices.

noun. A jacket or outer covering of wood, etc., to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder. etc., of a steam engine.

noun. The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

noun. A jacket or outer covering to prevent radiation of heat, as from the boiler, cylinder, etc. of a steam engine.

noun. The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc.

"He had noted the swift intaking of the white cleading on the hedges, the disappearance of fluttering garmentry from the clothes-lines."