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/blˈæŋkət/ /blˈæŋkɪt/ Listen

noun

Blanket n.

1.

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

2.

(Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

3.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. "Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!""

Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.

A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discourages.

verb

Blanket v. t. (past & past part. blanketed; pres. part. blanketing)

1.

To cover with a blanket. "I'll... blanket my loins."

2.

To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. "We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall."

3.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

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Etymology of 'Blanket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blanket" Quotes from Famous Books

... all her sublime beauty, like some wonderful marble statue, the image of a goddess. I took the coverlet, on which the Vernoeczy crest—a nymph rising out of a shell, holding apart her long, golden hair—was embroidered, and covered up the fair sleeper, folding the blanket well on the feet to prevent evil dreams. Then I let down the curtains to shut out the ...

— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai

... untidy heap of threadbare, brown blanket, in a wheel chair suddenly stirred. In several ways old Grandpa was like a big baby, but particularly in this habit of waking promptly whenever he was mentioned. "Is that you, Mother?" he asked in his thin, old voice. (He meant Big Tom's mother, ...

— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates

... be confess'd that few things make a Man appear more despicable or more prejudice his Hearers against what he is going to offer, than an awkward or pitiful Dress; insomuch that I fancy, had Tully himself pronounced one of his Orations with a Blanket about his Shoulders, more People would have laughed at his Dress than have admired his Eloquence. This last Reflection made me wonder at a Set of Men, who, without being subjected to it by the Unkindness ...

— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... again, with fifteen loaves done up in a blanket on one of the ponies. The journey was toilsome, for the river ran in places through gorges where the rocks rose sheer from its edge, and they were forced to make considerable detours, and to come down upon it again. They ...

— The Golden Canyon - Contents: The Golden Canyon; The Stone Chest • G. A. Henty

... living in the open out there," he went on, by this time including the whole company in his exordium. "You ride, or tramp, or dig rock all day; and at night you lie down under the clear stars, thankful for your blanket and your rock-bed and your camp-fire; and more than thankful if there's a bit of running water near by. It's ...

— The Stolen Singer • Martha Idell Fletcher Bellinger

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