clouting

From Middle English clouting; equivalent to clout +‎ -ing.

clouting

1. present participle and gerund of clout

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.

• car clouting

• cloutinge, clowtynge

From clout +‎ -ing.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkluːtinɡ/

clouting

1. patching, fixing
2. adulteration (adding in error)
3. (rare) alleviation

• English: clouting

• “clǒuting, ger.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.