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nickelling
- present participle and gerund of nickel
nickelling (uncountable)
- (firearms) The metallic fouling of a gun's bore with fragments of bullet casing.
1962, Edmund George Barton Reynolds, The Lee-Enfield Rifle, page 158:Further trials were carried out to establish their accuracy life and whether they developed any tendency to nickelling under Service conditions.