[Fictionary] HUTCH-CLEADING: The Results

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Nice word, nice defs all around.  The OED on "cleading":

Etymology:  In northern Middle English clething, cleding, < clethe, clead 
v. + -ing suffix1.

  1. Clothing, apparel. Sc. and north Eng.

  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
     which lines a shaft or tunnel, etc.

"Clead" is the northern version of "clothe":

Etymology:  Middle English (north.) cleþe, past tense cledde, past 
participle cled, < Old Norse klæða, past tense klædda, past participle 
klædd-r (Swedish kläda, Danish klæde) to clothe; < klæði n.: see 
cloth n. (Not the exact correspondent to Old English cláðian < type 
*klaiþojan.) The past tense, klædda was < *klæðda; in later times 
present stem has, by levelling, and assimilation to the type of feed, 
breed, etc., become cleed, clead. The normal Scots spelling is cleid, but 
in the vbl. n. has passed into general use in the form cleading.

(Apologies for any font-substitution problems with the edths and thorns.)

So "Hutch-cleading" is whatever Hutch has on right now.

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