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