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▪ I. blanketing, n.|ˈblæŋkɪtɪŋ|
[f. blanket.]
1. Material for blankets; supply of blankets. Also, as a dress material.
1677Plot Oxfordsh. 25 No place yields Blanketing so notoriously white, as..Witney. 1735Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 42 A narrow Ring of thick Blanketting. 1839F. Barham Adamus Exul 42 Love Night's pitchy blanketing. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxvii. 317 Clothing, blanketing, provisions..were destroyed in vast quantities. 1903Daily Chron. 20 June 8/4 Wraps..made of fine cream blanketing with big sleeves brought into high cavalier cuffs. 1908Ibid. 21 Sept. 7/2 The warm Witney blanketing..makes exceedingly cosy coats for girls.
2. Taking the wind out of the sails of a yacht by passing to windward of it. Cf. blanket v. 2.
1883Times 27 Aug. 8/2 The Marjorie then went on and gave the Neptune a blanketing.
3. The punishment of tossing in a blanket.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 547 Iesting, plaicing, blanketing, and..such other filthie and dishonorable exercises. 1621Fletcher Thierry ii. Wks. 457 The worst that can come Is blanketing; for beating..I have been long acquainted with. a1754Fielding To keep Wife at H. i. i, This affair, Sir, may end in a blanketing. 1808Hurstone Piccadilly Ambul. II. 53 The chance of undergoing a blanketting.
4. Mining. The catching of ore in suspension by a blanket-sluice; the ore thus caught.
1884Athenæum 3 May 570/3 Yield of gold..from pyrites and blanketings operated on 4,387 ounces.
5. The action of covering with, or as with, a blanket.
1896Pop. Sci. Monthly L. 245 There's a blanketing of the earth's heat.
▪ II. blanketing, ppl. a.|ˈblæŋkɪtɪŋ|
[f. blanket v. + -ing2.]
That covers as with a blanket. Also transf.
1904R. J. Farrer Garden Asia 244 The smoke descends densely upon the volcano in blanketing clouds. 1925Joly Surface-Hist. Earth vi. 103 The blanketing effects of continental radioactivity. |