The present participle of dunnage; the act of packing cargo with protective materials.
Formed by adding '-ing' to 'dunnage' when used as a verb. Creates the gerund form describing the ongoing action of protecting cargo.
The phrase 'dunnaging cargo' became less common after the 1960s as containerization made the skill obsolete—entire occupational vocabularies disappear when technology changes.
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