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Blanket   /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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"Blanket" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'pitch into' our 'dunghill' the other day, and laid him dead at a blow. I owe him one!—Come along." I followed in his footsteps, and soon beheld Chanticleer crowing with all the ostentation of a victor at the hens he had so ruthlessly widowed. A clothes-horse, with a ragged blanket, screened us from his view; and Master'John, putting the muzzle of his gun through a hole in this novel ambuscade, discharged its contents point blank into the proclaimer of the ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour
... because he had such an elegant figure, and 'such a distinguished manner;' Mrs. Goodenough, 'because of his aristocratic connections'— 'the son of a Scotch duke, my dear, never mind on which side of the blanket'—but the fact was certain; although he might frequently ask Mrs. Brown to give him something to eat in the housekeeper's room—he had no time for all the fuss and ceremony of luncheon with my lady—he was always welcome ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... sounded when I first awoke and, rolling from my blanket, looked about me. Already a faint, dim line of gray, heralding the dawn, was growing clearly defined in the east, and making manifest those heavy fog-banks which, hanging dank and low, obscured the valley. The tired men of my troop were yet lying upon the ground, ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish
... afterward one very important piece of evidence would be suppressed. This person could have used such a cartridge as I have here, made with smokeless powder, and the coat would have concealed the flash of the shot very effectively. There would have been no smoke. But neither this coat nor even a heavy blanket would have deadened the report ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... Sunday afternoon, May 27th, about sixty miles beyond Kearney, his soul passed on, and we were bowed under our first bereavement. We dug his grave in the sand a little way off the trail. We wrapped his blanket about him and sewed it, and at sunrise Monday morning laid him to rest. The end-gate from my wagon had been shaped into a grave-board and, with his name cut upon it, was planted to mark his resting-place. It was a sorrowful little ...
— In the Early Days along the Overland Trail in Nebraska Territory, in 1852 • Gilbert L. Cole


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