Definition of "warming"

warming¹

verb
1. present participle and gerund of warm

warming²

noun
plural warmings
1. A small rise in temperature.
2. (slang) A beating; a thrashing.
  Quotations
  More than once had he caught me in the act and given me, as he put it, “a good warming,” with his hard hand so, however much I was tempted so to do, I steadfastly refrained.
  2017, Harry Goulding, A Grimsby Life - Part 1: Henry the Ninth, page 193