diapering

diapering

1. present participle and gerund of diaper

diapering (plural diaperings)

1. The act of clothing somebody in a diaper.
   • 2012, Paola Mariotti, The Maternal Lineage, page 379:

     Then the therapist remembered that throughout the early critical period of the treatment, she had observed many diaperings of Billy, but at no time had Kathie shown revulsion toward the baby's feces or cleaning the anal region.

2. A regular pattern of the same shape, evenly spaced.
   • 1861, John Winter Jones, Observations on the origin of the division of man's life into stages:

     The space between each two spokes is filled in with very elaborate diaperings, in which red and blue alternately prevail […]

• depairing