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blinder, n.|ˈblaɪndə(r)|
[f. blind v. + -er1.]
1. a. He who or that which blinds. Also fig.
1587Golding De Mornay ii. (1617) 22 The same Sunne is the lightner of our eyes..and..the blinder of them. 1829Carlyle in Froude Life (1882) II. 75 To the bodily eye Self is a perpetual blinder.
b. Something ‘dazzlingly’ good or difficult, esp. an excellent piece of play in Rugby Football or Cricket. colloq.
1950W. Hammond Cricketers' School iii. 35 Striking out at an innocent-looking ball, I've sent a blinder—dead into the fieldsman's hands. 1960D. Storey This Sporting Life i. ii. 17 You played a blinder... It was the best game I ever saw. 1963Times 16 Feb. 3/3 They dropped one easy catch and caught three blinders.
2. A blinker for a horse. Also fig., an obstacle to clear judgement or perception. Usu. pl. (Chiefly in U.S.)
1809J. Barlow Columb. x. 414 Shake off their manacles, their blinders cast. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits v. 92 In common, the horse works best with blinders. 1860Tristram Gt. Sahara ii. 39 The blinders, worn for show and not for use, as none of them reached forward as far as the horse's eyes. 1934in Webster. 1965‘Malcolm X’ Autobiogr. (1968) xii. 308 He had returned to his work in 1946, to remove the blinders from the eyes of the black man in the wilderness of North America. 1971A. Hailey Wheels xx. 296 Cars turn us on. But it doesn't mean that any one of us is headed for Detroit wearing blinders. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. j4/4 We can't go through life with blinders on. 1986Jrnl. (Fairfax Co., Va.) 27 May a7 The bill will remove the blinders which we have had on for too long. |