blanketing

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Blanket \Blan"ket\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]

1.To cover with a blanket. [1913 Webster]

I'll . . . blanket my loins.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. [1913 Webster]

We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall.— B. Jonson.[1913 Webster]

3.To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. [1913 Webster]

Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted. [1913 Webster]


Blanketing \Blan"ket*ing\, n.

1.Cloth for blankets. [1913 Webster]

2.The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. [1913 Webster]

That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. --Smollett. [1913 Webster] Blanket mortgage
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