Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a thrashing, a beating; also verbal.

1849		Sam Sly 17 Mar. 3/2: How did you like the jacketting you got when leaving the court the other day?
1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1861		(con. 1840s–50s) H. Mayhew London Labour and London Poor I 52/2: I’ve got a good jacketing many a Sunday morning [...] for waking people up with crying mackerel, but I’ve said, ‘I must live while you sleep’.
1871		Durham County Advertiser 10 Nov. n.p.: The quiet man told him about having found it, and got a jacketing for not having come direct and reported it at once [F&H].
1883		Graphic 26 May 531, 3: Who the moment before had been administering a vigorous jacketing to him anent her neglected wardrobe [F&H].
1891		in Punch 7 Feb. 61: I’m a tellin’ yer secrets, I am; and if DILEY were to ’ear of it, I’d get a proper jacketin’.
1906		A.H. Lewis Confessions of a Detective 24: He gave me a jacketing that I shall not soon forget.