From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cleaning
n 1: the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a
good cleaning" [syn: cleaning, cleansing, cleanup]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cleaning \Clean"ing\, n.
1. The act of making clean.
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2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc. --Gardner.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned
(kl[=e]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean, a.,
and cf. Cleanse.]
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or
extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
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To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one)
all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.
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