clouting

clouting

English

Verb

clouting

1. present participle of clout

Noun

clouting (countable and uncountable, plural cloutings)

1. The act of giving a clout, or striking somebody.
   • 1969, The Educational Magazine (volume 26, page 163)

     And many readers could provide me with tales of rulers across knuckles, slaps on bare legs, heads cracked together, and mighty ear-cloutings.

2. A light plain cloth used for covering butter and farmer's baskets, and for dish and pudding cloths. The same term is often given to light cloths of the nursery diaper pattern.