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blanketn.adj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French blanket. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman blankette, Anglo-Norman and Old French (northern) blanket white woollen cloth (14th cent. or earlier; in Old French also denoting a light undergarment (13th cent.)), bed covering (1391 or earlier), variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French blanchet (Middle French, French blanchet ) (adjective) somewhat white (12th cent.), (noun) light white cloth (e.g. for making garments) (13th cent.), light undergarment (late 13th cent.), white woollen cloth (early 14th cent.), also in other senses denoting white items or substances < blanc white (see blank adj.) + -et -et suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin blanchetus , blanchetum white woollen cloth (from 12th cent. in British sources; from 14th cent. in continental sources), blanketus , blanquetus , blaunketus white woollen cloth (frequently from early 13th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), bed covering (from early 14th cent. in British sources). Compare later blunket n.In French, blanchet has a wide range of senses (as e.g. reflected in English by blanchet n.), but the specific use denoting a bed covering (compare sense A. 2) apparently developed in Britain and is therefore typically found in an Anglo-Norman form (with k ), which was subsequently borrowed into English and Latin. Parallels in other languages. Compare Old Occitan blanquet , Catalan blanquet , Spanish blanqueta , Portuguese branqueta (all 13th cent.), in various senses, but all including a kind of woollen cloth. Variant forms. In the β. forms perhaps influenced by French blanchet, which had become the usual form by the early modern period (in all senses). Potential earlier evidence. Perhaps attested early as a surname, although it is unclear whether this reflects the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word: Robert Blanket (1275); this could alternatively reflect a variant of Anglo-Norman blanchet in a different sense (e.g. with reference to white hair). Compare also the following, slightly earlier passage, although it is unclear whether this should be interpreted as showing the Latin, Anglo-Norman, or Middle English word:1269 Pipe Roll, 53 Henry III (P.R.O.: E 372/113) m. 2 M.M.CC.lxxiiij vlnis de stanford de ypro, Russetis & blanketis. Specific senses. With derogatory and offensive adjective uses in South African English compare Afrikaans compounds with kombers ‘blanket’ as the first element. A. n.the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > of specific colour > white or undyed c1300 (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1167 Blak was his cope above, his curtel whit blanket. c1475 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Taylor) in J. Robson (1842) 14 Her belte was of blenket..Beten with besandus, and bocult ful bene. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers I. xxii. 576 Blanket, or coarse woollen cloth, was woven at Witney nearly 500 years ago. 2. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket 1303 in W. H. Hale & H. R. Ellacombe (1874) 57 De uno blaunket et uno cuverlyt. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. l. 254 Noþer blankett in hus bed. 1522 in E. Beveridge (1917) I. 209 Ane feddir bed..ane boster, cod and blankatis. 1597 in (Invent. 14) One flockbed in the Parlour and a bolster, one hilling and a blanket and the bedstead. 1675 in G. F. Dow (1920) III. 49 3 blanchets & bedsted. 1711 E. Budgell No. 150. ⁋3 Had Tully himself pronounced one of his Orations with a Blanket about his Shoulders. 1858 W. M. Thackeray in Dec. 111/2 The trapper now got together his store of flints, powder, and blankets, and took his leave. 1955 A. MacLean v. 83 He lay there on his settee, a couple of blankets thrown over him. 2002 8 Jan. 50/4 With temperatures dropping precipitously and sharp winds blowing across the valley, we'd wrap ourselves in a woolen blanket called a patoo and huddle around fires. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur xii. 310 They will more chearfully wear the blanket, the matchcoat and the Mockassins. 1837 W. Irving II. iv. 45 Their dress consisted of a mantle about four feet square, formed of strips of rabbit skins sewed together: this they hung over their shoulders, in the ordinary Indian mode of wearing the blanket. 1891 Oct. 799 The Sacs and Foxes in Iowa usually wear the blanket. 1924 Oct. 54/3 Pistols seemed to spring out from under the blankets of the Indians. 2002 S. G. Deogaonkar & S. S. Deogaonkar iv. 95 The Kaibab-Paiutes..used rabbit skin blankets in winter. 2008 82 15/2 Jessica was a Tohono O'odham student... After hearing Jessica another student responded: ‘Oh! I thought you were Mexican.’ Jessica explained that she and her peers faced this assumption every day of their lives. ‘It's because we don't wear the blanket’, she joked. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. v. 52 Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke, To cry, hold, hold. View more context for this quotation 1787 ‘P. Pindar’ (ed. 5) v. 12 The black blanket of Old Mother Night. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Dec. 285 The blanket of the Night is drawn asunder. 1924 M. R. Reynolds 92/1 The use of a ‘blanket’ of biscuit dough spread over the entire turkey, will insure a juicy, tender bird... This ‘blanket’ will be crisp and quite hard when the turkey is done. 1979 C. Freeman (1980) vi. 31 The streets were covered with a white blanket of snow and ice so slick it was almost impossible for him to walk. 2015 M. Young-Stone x. 71 The rest of the world slept under a blanket of dark clouds. society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > layer of cloth over type to equalize pressure society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > platen > cloth to cover platen a1619 J. Parker in (1926) 7 257 Ye printing of this storie cost my father..for a blanket for ye press. 1683 J. Moxon II. Dict. 369 Blankets, Woollen Cloath, or White Bays, to lay between the Tympans. 1758 R. Dossie II. ii. vi. 201 When the plate has thus passed to the further side, so that the roller no longer bears upon it, but only on the further edge of the blankets, the printer must go to the other side. 1824 J. Johnson II. 648 The blankets must be of fine broad-cloth, or kerseymere. 1890 W. J. Gordon 221 It was customary to work entirely with soft packing—that is to say, with a thick blanket or cloth between the impression cylinder and the paper. 1906 Oct. 283/2 The offset process—that is, working first on the blanket and offsetting from this on to the paper fed into the machine—is the usual method. 1999 7 June 16/4 The ink is transferred via a blanket to the paper and as the drum turns, its latent image is erased and the cycle moves on to the next printing colour. society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > incendiary weapons or materials 1802 C. James Blankets, are made of coarse paper steeped in a solution of saltpetre, and when dry are again dipt in a composition of tallow, resin, and sulphur. They are used only in fire-ships. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > whale-blubber > layer of 1835 T. Beale i. 19 This covering is called, by South Sea whalers, the blanket; it is of a light yellow colour, and when melted down furnishes the Sperm oil. 1885 J. G. Wood in Mar. 548 The layer of blubber..called by whalers the ‘blanket’. 1922 VII. 3726 (caption) Stripping off the blubber blanket. 2007 D. G. Burnett iv. 116 This process..involved..winching off strips of the whale's external ‘blanket’ or blubber layer. 1905 (Supreme Court U.S. Oct. Term: No. 13. Orig. Cause in Equity: State of Georgia vs. Tennessee Copper Company) 165 A mathematical calculation of the thickness of a blanket of sulphur dioxide covering so many square miles of space. 1938 Dec. a124/2 The best thing to do, after a gasoline fire has been extinguished with carbon-dioxide gas, is to keep pouring on more gas from the extinguisher. Otherwise the thin inert gas blanket may dissipate before the material has cooled down to a safe temperature and a flashback will occur. 1989 A. Aird 14 If it is kept under a blanket of carbon dioxide (‘blanket pressure’) to preserve it, we still generally mention it. 2007 J. A. Kent II. (ed. 11) 1631/2 Additional techniques for reducing oxidative activity include maintaining nitrogen blankets on oils stored in tanks. the world > matter > physics > science of sound > sound-waves > [noun] > insulation against > that which provides 1908 Feb. 45/2 The peculiar feature of the interior construction is the double blanket of cork lining the inner walls, for insulation. 1912 (Union Fibre Co.) 33 The fibre..is felted by a batting or felting machine into a blanket, uniformly one-half inch in thickness. 1952 P. D. CLose ii. 21 Bat insulations are similar to blanket insulations except that they are usually smaller in size and thicker. 1988 30/1 One of the most popular ways of insulating a roof is using mineral wool insulating blanket which comes in rolls to fit between the joists. 2006 22 Jan. (Home section) 41/5 Wickes DIY chain sells rolls of 100mm and 170mm mineral-wool blanket insulation that cover just over 10sq m each. society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > number or distribution of bombs 1918 July 105/1 All that is necessary is to drop a blanket of bombs, so adjusted that they will all strike the enemy country simultaneously and one yard apart. 1944 22 June 661/2 A blanket of bombs is dropped to smother the whole of the area. 2008 14 415 B-52 bombers would fly over and lay down a blanket of bombs into an area thought to be occupied by enemy forces. the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [noun] > fertile material in 1946 W. H. Zinn 3 If it turns out to be feasible to substitute a blanket of thorium, then it is a converter of 25 into 23 [i.e. 235U into 233U]. 1946 W. H. Zinn 8 The part of the array of rods inside the hexagon is the reactor proper. The larger diameter rods surrounding the hexagon constitute part of the breeding blanket. 1960 (H.M.S.O.) 7 Blanket, fertile material put round a reactor core to breed new fuel, e.g. thorium becomes uranium by absorption of spare neutrons. 1969 25 Sept. 639/2 The three essential functions of a blanket are neutron moderation, tritium breeding, and heat-transfer. 1994 Spring 27/2 It will..provide a testbed for the study and validation of tritium breeding blanket modules in reactor conditions. 2021 L. J. Reinders i. 21 The hope is that in future the necessary tritium..can be generated in the reactor itself by embedding the reactor core in a lithium blanket which will absorb neutrons from the fusion process. B. adj. (in attributive use). 1. society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [adjective] > traditional > adhering to > specifically of native North Americans 1833 25 Dec. He must be on the Committee on Indian Affairs, for he was certainly a representative of the blanket-tribe. 1866 173 There is..great ignorance concerning the location of the prairie or blanket tribes. 1891 M. E. Ryan iii. iii. 166 You should hear her talking Chinook to a blanket brave. 1925 W. F. Hooker xiv. 83 His father was an agency Indian, a member of a blanket tribe, and a recipient of flour, bacon, sugar, and tobacco from his Uncle Sam. 2008 L. Erdrich (2009) 5 The bark huts of the blanket Indians were crushed by the weight of the birds. 1877 June 170 Three special meetings..were largely attended by red blanket Kaffirs as well as Christian.] 1878 Dec. 1132 At Berlin, there was a congregation of Kaffir huts, and the system of 'blanket Kaffir' life was carried on selon les règles. 1900 2 Oct. 6/6 ‘The people's petition, signed by 60,000 or 70,000 Cape Colonists’—How many black or ‘blanket’ voters Mr. De Vos is very careful not to state. 1943 ‘J. Burger’ 55 The older Natives now distinguish between ‘dressed’ and ‘blanket’ Natives. 2001 D. Russell (e-book, accessed 21 Jan. 2022) 96 ‘Expatriates don't like me, I am just a blanket man’, the driver said. 1873 18 Apr. 2/6 Twelve lots two squares east of Woodruff Place. No blanket mortgage. 1973 Oct. 32/2 Blanket loans covering an existing home and one to be constructed are proper. 1991 June 470/1 The builder organises blanket financing for the project, portions of which are then assumed by individual purchasers as first mortgages. 2021 (Nexis) 13 Jan. Properties are commonly appraised individually, even under blanket mortgages. 1882 13 July 66/2 The organization of the Standard Envelope Company was proceeding smoothly until it was found that three of the firms had taken ‘blanket orders’, thereby giving certain buyers a privilege. 1882 25 Oct. 679/1 As to the old contracts,..the exact quantity required to fill them will be closely watched, in order to do away with the opportunity to sell coal in the open market under what has been termed a blanket contract. 1915 C. S. Rindsfoos vii. 67 Many purchasers with a keen judgment on the tendency of prices can place advantageous blanket orders at times when the market is ‘off’. 1953 18 Apr. 6/3 Idemitsu Kosan had a dollar allocation for the blanket purchase of Gulf oil. 2021 (Nexis) 15 July The Technology Transformation Services..has awarded Fearless a blanket purchase agreement (BPA)..which could be worth $120 million over the next five years. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > affecting all indiscriminately 1883 25 Feb. 4/5 Any conflicts between the new and the old law could be easily covered by what is known as the ‘blanket’ clause, providing that all contravening laws are repealed. 1896 May 4783 Messrs. Morgan & Co. had given a blanket bid to cover the whole amount... Under the terms of the blanket bid, which covered all bids [etc.]. 1908 W. James 2 Jan. (1920) II. 300 The general blanket-word pragmatism covers so many different opinions. 1935 13 Apr. 848/1 The..Appropriations Bill..is virtually a blanket authorisation for the President to expend $5,000 millions for any purposes which he considers desirable. 1994 27 Aug. c8/5 I'm told that the CBC..are committed by government mandate to provide blanket coverage of the Commonwealth Games. 2019 19 Jan. 42/1 There is a blanket rule: if you live in a high-crime area, you have the right to be armed. Phrasessociety > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket 1709 W. Oldisworth I. i. 210 He who is kick'd out of Company..if he will not acknowledge and beg Pardon for his admittance, after the Discipline of the Blanket, and Strapado, deserves to stand all Night in the Cold and Rain. 1713 R. Steele in 3 June 2/1 I have..more than once, known the Discipline of the Blanket administer'd to the Offenders. ?1788 I. 348/1 It was the emperor Otho's practice to stroll out in dark nights, and where he met with a helpless, or drunken man, to give him the discipline of the blanket. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > legitimate 1771 T. Smollett III. 242 I did'n't come on the wrong side of the blanket, girl. 1815 W. Scott I. ix. 129 ‘Frank Kennedy,’ he said, ‘was a gentleman, though on the wrong side of the blanket.’ 1842 F. Marryat II. i. 100 The captain marrying and having children on the right side of the blanket as they call it. 1919 D. Ashford (1951) v. 34 An old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say. 2017 Spring 30 Pergolesi came to father a crop of children on the wrong side of the blanket. society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [adverb] > supporters of Irish Republican cause 1977 30 Sept. 439 (heading) The men on the blanket. 1979 29 Sept. 2/3 The latest organisation in Co. Meath to come out in support of the prisoners on the blanket in H-Block is the Meath County Board of the G.A.A. 1982 M. Wallace viii. 158 The first prisoner had gone ‘on the blanket’ in September 1976, refusing to wear prison clothing. 2004 93 343 Support for prisoners on ‘the blanket’ was declining during the early part of 1981, and to many their protest appeared futile. Compounds C1. a1475 Bk. Hawking in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) I. 294 Take new blanket cloth and kut feire pelotis of an ench long. 1520 R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot (1880) I. App. A. 313 Blanket cloth for blankettes. c1683 (title of ballad) A true description of Blanket Fair upon the river Thames in the time of the Great Frost. 1856 E. K. Kane I. xvi. 193 Skins and blanket-bags. 1923 D. H. Lawrence (London ed.) 197 Mountains blanket-wrapped Round a white hearth of desert. a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) I. iii. 68 About the size of the head of a large blanket-pin. 2019 1 June 79/4 Guests sat on blanket-covered hay bales. 1711 No. 4862/7 Her Majesty..hath been..pleased to Incorporate the Blanket Weavers. 1857 J. Ruskin i. 72 It is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at. 1894 (53rd Congr., 2nd Sess.) XXVI. App. Pt. ii. 1157/1 McKinley protection stimulated the blanket producers. 1949 Jan. 39 Soft woolens are hit by slack demand... Blanket makers blame government surplus sales and the electric blanket. 2008 (Nexis) 16 Sept. To promote and protect the business interests of the Woollen Mills, Machine made carpets and blanket manufacturers of Pakistan. C2. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > a bath > bathing of invalid in bed 1846 5 Sept. 442/3 I have constantly experienced the advantage of using the blanket bath, as it has been termed, to the infantile sufferers from this disease. 1917 A. M. Ashdown ii. 11 Points to bear in mind when giving a blanket bath. 1962 C. Watson xvi. 180 An ambulent case, no bed pans or blanket baths. 2009 13 Nov. 42 (caption) Nurses often learn more from giving a blanket bath than through a structured interview where boxes are ticked. the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] 1937 H. Godwin in 36 436 I feel, however, that before long the distinctive categories of ‘blanket-bog’ or ‘raised-bog’ should be recognized in this country, the term ‘heather-moor’ or ‘cotton-grass moor’ is quite inadequate for them. 1939 A. G. Tansley xxxv. 714 The name ‘blanket bog’ was suggested (in 1935) for this kind of vegetation. 1987 8 Jan. 47/2 Like the raised bogs, the blanket bogs receive no ground water, being supplied only by the rain. 2005 Winter 27/3 Moor tops are currently covered mainly by blanket bog. society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance policy > specific types of policy 1887 12 July 1/3 Arguments were presented as to whether a company must give a bond for each elevator, or a blanket bond for all. 1958 3 Feb. 10/6 The older type of bond, under which individuals were named and insured for specific amounts, to a considerable extent has been superseded by the blanket bond. 2010 June 33/2 Blanket bonds..apply to all jurisdictions..and are not client specific, so they see a higher frequency of claims. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for 1804 J. Ordway Jrnl. 10 Dec. in (1995) IX. 102 Blanket cappoes provided for each man. 1977 20 June 4/6 An old trunk contained a brown coat and vest, 1 gray coat,..1 blanket capot, [etc.]. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for 1820 4 Nov. He had on when he absconded, either a white blanket capote or a blue jacket. 1865 Apr. 244 He was dressed in the blanket capote, cloth leggings, and scarlet cap usually worn by the Abinikies and other tribes of the Labrador coast. 2002 (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. 24 His blanket capote with fringed cuffs and hood is held in place by a leather cartridge belt. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for 1698 ‘L. Redivivus’ vii. 21 With Blanket-Coat and wooden-Shoes, The Man the Camel scarce outdoes. 1775 31 Oct. 497/1 Our people had taken from the regulars some blanket coats. c1805 J. J. Henry (1812) 109 Having on a fine white blanket coat..made me, as it were, invisible in the snow. 1888 T. Roosevelt in Oct. 834/2 A powerfully built trapper..who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat. 2014 7 Sept. (Style section) 49 Burberry's wonderfully enveloping blanket coats speak of a need for warmth and snug protection. 1852 H. Walker (1854) 2 When I desire to print colors (one or more), I prefer the blanket cylinder to be enlarged, as compared with existing newspaper machinery, and operate on the paper or other material while it is travelling round the cylinder by a series of type cylinders. 1963 5 Aug. 87/1 Letterset refers to printing through the use of relief wrap-around plates and an intermediate blanket cylinder to transfer the image to the surface being printed. 2011 A. Haslam (e-book ed.) The blanket cylinder..is used to offset the image and text wrong-reading from the plate and print it on to the paper right-reading. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > finish 1793 2 52/1 Of the nineteen [race-horses] that started, the judge could only place the first four, for not only those, but four or five others, might have been nearly covered with a blanket.] 1888 14 Sept. 4/4 Victor Duroc, Harry D., and White Eye made a blanket finish of it. The first two were even, and White Eye was only neck and shoulders away. 1960 1 Sept. 4/3 Black was beaten by a hairsbreadth in a blanket finish for the silver and bronze medals. 2006 P. McMullen 196 Eleven hundredths of a second separated the medalists in one of the greatest blanket finishes Olympic swimming had ever produced. the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Thymallus > member of (grayling) 1828 H. G. Ward I. App. to Vol. II. 562 The manta, or blanket-fish, is also a very formidable enemy [of pearl fishers]. 1870 4 597 Large numbers of ‘blanket fish’ (a species of Thymallus) were to be seen ascending the small rivers [sc. in the Yukon territory]. 1997 A. Dick (Teacher's ed.) (Alaska Native Knowl. Network) i. 10 King salmon are too big to cut like blanket fish. 2019 178 3/1 The giant blanket fish, a relative of the shark that can reach 8 m long, is also found in these waters. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > composite flowers > other composite flowers 1874 C. W. Seelye 41 Gaillardia, Blanket flower, Good sense. 1963 146/2 Gaillardia,..they are sometimes called ‘blanket flower’ because the margins of the petals are like the edging of a blanket. 2016 (Nexis) 9 Nov. 18 The blanket flower excels as a colourful garden plant, it's good for attracting butterflies, it's easy to grow in containers and is fine as a cut flower. society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > playhouse 1959 23 July 2/4 Build blanket fort by clothespinning them to floor-lamps, piano bench, book-cases, etc. 2007 A. Packer xxxi. 277 Winter afternoons like this one, she made blanket forts with the kids: crawled inside with them and staged tea parties, Playmobil rodeos, Thumbkin sleepovers. 1859 J. R. Bartlett (ed. 2) Blanket-Indian, a wild Indian, whose principal article of dress is the blanket. 1889 (Engineer Dept., U.S. Army) I. iv. 217 The Commissioner of Indian Affairs refers to the Indian population as civilized, part[l]y civilized.., and ‘blanket Indians.’ 1906 Mar. 328/2 Only 26,000 blanket Indians are left in the United States. 1989 16 Feb. 4/1 It's time for the Navajos to start realizing that the world is moving on and they are being left behind as ‘Blanket Indians.’ 2008 L. Erdrich (2009) 5 The bark huts of the blanket Indians were crushed by the weight of the birds. society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccxvi, in (1878) III. 191 The Lady Swinford..comes into the place With honour now, where she had crept with scorne; Such Blanket-Love: for only Marriage yet Carries the cleanly lover of a sheet. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for 1822 J. A. Quitman Let. 16 Jan. in J. F. H. Claiborne (1860) I. iv. 72 In winter coarse shoes and blanket overcoats. 1954 13 331 Fortunately I had on a blue blanket overcoat that had belonged to my father. society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag 1856 13 Dec. 5/1 Jackson..received another bullet, which, however, lodged in his blanket pack, without doing any harm. 1920 Apr. 220/1 Only one small tin of corned beef remained in his blanket-pack. 2009 H. S. Owens 389 The men had removed their blanket packs and wallets from behind their saddles and had laid them on the ground near their stack of rifles. the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > other pieces of meat society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > whale-blubber > layer of 1827 11 Aug. The blubber..was peeled off immediately in large ‘blanket pieces’ or flakes, about 10 feet in length, two or three feet wide, and from 4 to 10 inches in thickness. 1913 W. N. Burns xii. 140 The largest blanket pieces weighed perhaps ten tons. 2003 E. Mathews 269 Once hoisted aboard, the blanket pieces were cut and minced. 1978 15 Dec. 813/3 Cases of four blanket prisoners are already speeding through the..procedures employed by the [European] Commission [of Human Rights]. 2001 (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Features section) 27 Former IRA blanket prisoner..becomes Northern Ireland's first Sinn Fein mayor. society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest 1977 Dec. 18/2 Our first ‘blanket protest’ was arranged for 5 o'clock. 1982 U. O'Connor in B. Sands 12 His description of his companions in the blanket protest has a stark reality that no photograph could reproduce. 2018 T. Murtagh 237 He..claimed that it was the staff that set off the blanket protest by issuing him with a blanket. society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > equipment for specific occasion 1865 5 May 1/3 I am daily touched to the heart by seeing these poor home-sick boys..wandering about in threadbare uniform, with scanty outfit of slender haversack and blanket-roll hung over their shoulders. 1948 24 July 3/3 They carried heavy rucksacks, bulging blanket rolls, carrier bags. 2005 9 Feb. 65/2 In Adams's blanket roll were his diaries since 1941 and his father's letters—not much else. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > shawl > types of 1804 8 Dec. Ladies of fashion no longer dress a-la-nude: velvet shirts, cloth pelises, blanket shawls..and water-proof boots, indicate a warm and happy change. 1837 3 660 The blanket shawls with their varied coloring looked pretty and comfortable. 1978 1 Apr. 35/2 The 19th-century woollen mill..produces pure wool blanket-shawls in traditional colours and patterns. 2004 9 Mar. 8/2 Global nomads were the mainstay of an impressive debut that mixed Japanese kimono sleeves with gypsy ruffles and North African striped blanket shawls. society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper 1830 12 Apr. The arrival of the senior Editor of the blanket sheet has been expected, to follow up the flourish in one of his late papers. 1888 XXIII. 765/2 The old ‘blanket-sheet’ newspaper, cumbrous to handle and slow in all its ways. 1932 77 390 In form, the daily is a blanket sheet so that its preparation requires a minimum of mechanical work. 1993 J. E. Steele vi. 81 The New York Sun was a four-page ‘blanket sheet’, printed on both sides of a single piece of newsprint measuring thirty-six by forty-six inches, which was folded in half. 1952 31 July 8 (advt.) Cuddles Snuggle Dolls... Dressed in adorable Beacon blanket sleeper.] 1955 11 Sept. 7 (advt.) Blanket sleeper with plastic feet... Keep them warm all night in this new acetate and cotton sleeper. 1996 D. Bergen in W. Tefs et al. 167 It was evening. I bathed Theo and got him into his blanket sleeper. 2017 H. Ephron ii. 17 Standing beside five-year-old Lis was Janey, a sturdy toddler wearing a blanket sleeper. society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine 1869 (title) Endless blanket sluice. 1926 C. W. Henderson Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 138. 108/1 The mills in 1870 were the Yankee Blade 20-stamp mill, in which the ore was treated by battery amalgamation, blanket sluices, and pans for tailings. 2003 29 8/1 Completed in July 1877, the mill housed 20 stamps, blanket sluices, a series of 20 settlers, 16 pans, and 2 agitators, all for treating pulp discharged from the stamps. society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings 1879 13 Nov. 4/2 Conductors and brakemen can't bear these fellows that carry blankets. They are called blanket stiffs on the road. 1912 1 May 2/2 The blanket stiff is scorned in some quarters, but without him the railroads could never have been built and the harvest could not be reaped. 1996 K. Starr (1997) ii. 45 Migrants were not workers to be treated with dignity, but hoboes, blanket stiffs, to be shunned by mainstream society. the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > tossing about > tossing in a blanket 1877 29 July 1/4 The grand bounce, or blanket toss, does not stop with dogs, for there is scarcely an hour that some unfortunate civilian does not pass through the ordeal. 1898 19 Aug. 2/6 A number of the Forty-seventh Regiment were out for a little lark, and went to the tent of Private Doran, with the intention of giving him a blanket toss. 1966 N. A. Chance iv. 54 Of all the Eskimo ceremonial customs, the nalukatak or ‘blanket toss’ is perhaps most well known. 2014 T. N. Brown (front matter) Charlie loves to watch his relatives and friends get thrown high in the air during the traditional Ihupiat blanket toss. the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > tossing about > in a blanket 1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes I. 374 The blanket-tossed Squire [Sp. manteado escudero]. 2004 (Nexis) 26 Oct. Back ‘up in the air’ like a blanket-tossed lady. society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > tossing about > tossing in a blanket 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes xxvii. 186 We shal come a hundred & a hundred times to the Blanket-tossing [Sp. los manteamientos de matras] you wotte of, and other childish trickes. 1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes I. 369 Never a word did he say of the blanket tossing [Sp. manteamiento] . 1913 5 Aug. 6 (caption) On the right a picture of blanket-tossing by London Territorials in Arundel Park. 2020 (Nexis) 10 Jan. There are traditional Inuit games such as juggling, high kicking and blanket tossing, activities that helped the people get through winter months. 1877 13 Apr. 487/1 An inferior man..had been sent to the Cape parliament through the influence of the ‘blanket’ vote. 1909 24 May 44/2 Neither Natal..nor the Transvaal..would in their present mood admit the ‘blanket’ vote. 1997 R. Vigne 3 White fears of being ‘swamped’ by the ‘blanket vote’ of the Transkeians demanded their disenfranchisement. the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > other algae 1860 Rep. Select Comm. Serpentine 63 in (H.C. 192) XX. 1 This green matter is then found on the surface of the sand, and amongst the workmen it goes by the name of ‘blanket weed’. 1870 Rep. Comm. Methods of Oyster Culture 41 in (C. 224) XIV. 305 Weeds are often very troublesome in tanks or ponds, more particularly the green filmy weed ‘cladophera’ [sic], known commonly as ‘blanket-weed’. 1989 Oct. 66/3 A pond typically affected by nitrates from agricultural fertilizers can be clogged with filamentous algae (blanket-weed to the exasperated garden pond owner, Spirogyra to the botanist). 2015 (Special Subscriber ed.) Aug. 111/1 Use a bamboo cane or tool handle to twirl out the blanket weed and scoop duckweed out with a net. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022; most recently modified version published online December 2022). blanketv. Etymology: < blanket n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblanket. the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with cloth or textile > specific 1608 W. Shakespeare vii. 176 My face ile grime with filth, Blanket my loynes, else all my haire with knots. 1865 F. Parkman Champlain i, in 194 The rocks, the shores, the pine-trees..all alike were blanketed in snow. 1875 Ld. Tennyson iii. ii. 122 Blanketed In ever-closing fog. 1884 Roe in Feb. 452/2 The horses were sheltered as well as possible, and heavily blanketed. 1895 R. Kipling 198 The face of the water was blanketed with wild bees buzzing sullenly and stinging all they found. 1897 R. Kipling 106 Just before the fog blanketed the sea once again. 1905 W. H. Hunt I. 478 The heavy mist blanketing the uprising shore. 1910 J. Simon in 11 Oct. 10/2 It was a free country,..and he had no intention to blanket his opinion. 1962 3 Nov. 456/1 The energetic campaign..with which Mr Kennedy was blanketing the country. 2. the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > put in the shade or put to shame society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > keep wind from a ship or becalm 1884 G. C. Davies xxv. 191 It is difficult to pass to leeward while blanketed by the sail of a yacht to windward. 1900 G. Ade (1902) 44 She had her Upper Rigging set, and was trying to Blanket everything on the Street. 1923 1 Apr. 2 Lord Curzon's chief ambition has been to become Prime Minister, and he has been known to complain to his intimates that he has always been blanketed by Arthur Balfour, who was just a little ahead of him. society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > communicate by radio [verb (transitive)] > exclude signal 1938 12 Mar. 301/1 The blanketing out of American broadcasts to South America by Berlin and Rome. 1952 26 July 235/1 The Soviet Union had just extended its jamming operations to blanket not only BBC programmes in Russian but also those in Polish and Finnish. society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > toss in blanket the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > toss about > in blanket 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. iv, in I. 595 Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall. View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Heywood Maidenhead Lost iii, in (1874) IV. 143 I would tosse him, I would blanket him i' th' Ayre, and make him cut an Italian caper in the Clouds. 1867 Apr. 455 The memorable inn..where Sancho was blanketed. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > cover bed [verb (transitive)] > furnish with blankets 1874 23 466 Schemes of clothing and blanketing whole districts. 1899 21 July 8/6 The beds are amply blanketed hammocks. 5. 1892 N.Y. Law Jrnl. in 93 413/1 A bonâ fide immigrant..blanketed the aforesaid quarter-section with his own claim and the court held that the blanketer..was potior in jure. 1903 6 Nov. 6 In this way the Republican campaign was blanketed. 1908 17 Dec. 4 It so happened that Mr. Taft was completely blanketed by the San Francisco earthquake. 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