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† blankeˈteer Obs.
[f. blanket + -eer1.]
a. One who uses a blanket. One who tosses in a blanket.
b. pl. A body of operatives who met at the so-called Blanket Meeting in St. Peter's Fields near Manchester, on 10th March 1817, provided with blankets or rugs, in order to march to London and press their grievances upon the attention of the Government. Hence blankeˈteering vbl. n.
1755Smollett Quix. (1803) I. 156 God grant there may be neither blankets nor blanketeers. 1822Cobbett Rural Rides (1885) I. 222 These base landlords laughed..at the blanketeers. 1830Moriarty Husband Hunter III. 230 On returning from her blanketeering adventure. 1833Southey in Life & Corr. VI. 203 The projected expedition of the Blanketeers. |