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▪ I. blinker|ˈblɪŋkə(r)|
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
1. a. One who blinks; a blinking or purblind person.
1636Abp. J. Williams Holy Table (1637) 219 He was but a blinker, and saw..but with half an eye. a1704T. Brown Cupid turn'd T. Wks. 1730 I. 113 What does our sly graceless blinker? 1835Browning Paracelsus i. 20 As earnest blinkers do Whom radiance ne'er distracted.
b. One who casts blinks or sly glances. Sc.
1786Burns Ep. to Mayor Logan x, The witching, cursed, delicious blinkers Hae put me hyte.
2. a. pl. A kind of spectacles for directing the sight in one direction only, so as to cure squinting, or for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.; = goggles.
1732M. Green Grotto 10 (R.) Bigots who but one way see Through blinkers of authority. 1803Bristed Pedest. Tour I. 38 A little fellow, with blinkers over his eyes. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. iv. (1858) 205 Who only dare to look up at life through blinkers.
b. Leather screens attached to a horse's bridle on each side, to prevent his seeing in any direction except straight ahead.
1789W. Gilpin Tour Lakes II. 154 (R.) On being pressed by her friends..to go to court; ‘By no means,’ said she, ‘unless I may be allowed to wear blinkers.’ 1861Musgrave By-Roads 174 An old female hostler, who gave us neither cruppers, blinkers, or breeching.
3. The eye. (slang.)
1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 11 A patent pair of goggle winkers, Conceal'd from public view his blinkers.
4. A sporting dog that refuses to see and mark the position of game. Cf. blinking vbl. n. 3.
1814W. Dobson Kunopædia 98 We shall, I fear, be compelled to class him along with the blinker of a very different nature, the brute of perverse..yet snivelling disposition. 1845Youatt Dog iii. 91 The chastisement..would make the setter disgusted..and leave him a mere blinker. 1848W. N. Hutchinson Dog Breaking 94 Excess of punishment has made many a dog of good promise a confirmed blinker.
5. An intermittent flash-light. In full, blinker light. U.S.
1923R. D. Paine Comr. Rolling Ocean xvi. 285 Take this bug-light [sc. an electric torch] and use it as a blinker. You learned the Morse code at Camp Stuart. 1943J. Steinbeck Once there was a War (1959) i. 52 The second in command takes up the blinker and signals. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 432 Motels, blinker lights, salt-eroded billboards. 1964‘M. E. Chaber’ Six who Ran (1965) i. 17 Three passenger cars were stolen... One of them was converted into a State Police car with the aid of a blinker light.
Hence ˈblinkerless a. (sense 2 b.)
1872Daily News 23 Oct., Fleet blinkerless horses.
▪ II. ˈblinker, v.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To put blinkers on; fig. to blind, hoodwink, deceive.
1865W. Palgrave Arabia I. 140 But Telal was not so easily to be blinkered, and kept to his first judgment. |