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单词 blanket
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blanketn.adj.

Brit. /ˈblaŋkɪt/, U.S. /ˈblæŋkət/
Forms:

α. Middle English blancketh, Middle English blankat, Middle English blankked, Middle English blaunket, Middle English blenket, Middle English–1500s blankette, Middle English–1600s blankett, Middle English– blanket, 1500s blanckett, 1500s blanckette, 1500s–1600s blancket, 1500s–1600s blanquet, 1600s blanckitt, 1600s blankquet, 1600s blanquett; Scottish pre-1700 blainkat, pre-1700 blancat, pre-1700 blancate, pre-1700 blancatt, pre-1700 blankait, pre-1700 blankat, pre-1700 blankatt, pre-1700 blankit, pre-1700 blanquet, pre-1700 blanquett, pre-1700 1700s– blanket; English regional 1600s blancot (Gloucestershire), 1700s blenkit (Yorkshire), 1800s blaanket (midlands), 1800s blankit (Yorkshire).

β. 1500s–1600s blanchet.

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.
1. A kind of white or undyed woollen cloth. Obsolete (historical and rare in later use).Sometimes difficult to distinguish from blunket n.
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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
blanketc1300
rum-swizzle1851
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 1167 Blak was his cope above, his curtel whit blanket.
c1475 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 14 Her belte was of blenket..Beten with besandus, and bocult ful bene.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxii. 576 Blanket, or coarse woollen cloth, was woven at Witney nearly 500 years ago.
2.
a. A large, usually rectangular or square piece of woollen cloth or similar material used for warmth, esp. as a bed covering or loose outer garment.Frequently with modifying word. See also comfort blanket n., electric blanket n., fire blanket n., riding blanket n., saddle blanket n., security blanket n. 2, space blanket n., wet blanket n., etc.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > cloth or textile
weedOE
blanket1346
cover-pane1481
sheet1487
drapet1590
cover-cloth1599
receiver1688
woolly1864
clothing1881
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > [noun] > blanket
whittlec900
langel1324
blanket1346
caddow1579
cad1581
rug1591
cambal1599
cumbly1696
bed-blanket1701
kombaars1812
mackinaw blanket1822
blankie1921
1303 in W. H. Hale & H. R. Ellacombe Acct. Executors Bishops London & Exeter (1874) 57 De uno blaunket et uno cuverlyt.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. l. 254 Noþer blankett in hus bed.
1522 in E. Beveridge Burgh Rec. Dunfermline (1917) I. 209 Ane feddir bed..ane boster, cod and blankatis.
1597 in Inventories 1537–1756 (Invent. 14) One flockbed in the Parlour and a bolster, one hilling and a blanket and the bedstead.
1675 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1920) III. 49 3 blanchets & bedsted.
1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 150. ⁋3 Had Tully himself pronounced one of his Orations with a Blanket about his Shoulders.
1858 W. M. Thackeray in Harper's Mag. Dec. 111/2 The trapper now got together his store of flints, powder, and blankets, and took his leave.
1955 A. MacLean H.M.S. Ulysses v. 83 He lay there on his settee, a couple of blankets thrown over him.
2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 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.
b. U.S. A blanket (sense A. 2a) made by North American Indian peoples and traditionally fashioned into a shawl, cloak, or similar garment. Cf. Indian blanket n. Now dated or historical.See also button blanket n.Frequently in to wear the blanket: (with reference to a member of a North American Indian people) to wear such a garment, esp. as opposed to adopting Western dress or customs (often depreciative or derogatory).
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1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer xii. 310 They will more chearfully wear the blanket, the matchcoat and the Mockassins.
1837 W. Irving Rocky Mountains 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 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 799 The Sacs and Foxes in Iowa usually wear the blanket.
1924 Boy's Life Oct. 54/3 Pistols seemed to spring out from under the blankets of the Indians.
2002 S. G. Deogaonkar & S. S. Deogaonkar Native Americans & Native Indians iv. 95 The Kaibab-Paiutes..used rabbit skin blankets in winter.
2008 Radical Teacher 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.
3. figurative and in figurative contexts. A thick covering or layer of something. Chiefly with of.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering
wrielsc825
coverc1320
hillingc1325
eyelida1382
covering1382
casea1398
coverta1400
tegumentc1440
hacklea1450
coverturec1450
housingc1450
deck1466
heeler1495
housera1522
coverlet1551
shrouda1561
kever1570
vele1580
periwig1589
hap1593
opercle1598
integument?1611
blanketa1616
cask1646
operiment1650
coverlid1654
tegment1656
shell?1677
muff1687
operculum1738
tegmen1807
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (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’ Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians (ed. 5) v. 12 The black blanket of Old Mother Night.
1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 285 The blanket of the Night is drawn asunder.
1924 M. R. Reynolds Farm & Home Cook Bk. 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 Portraits (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 Above us only Sky x. 71 The rest of the world slept under a blanket of dark clouds.
4. Printing. Each of one or more layers of woollen cloth or other resilient material used (in relief or letterpress printing) to equalize the pressure exerted by the platen, or (in intaglio printing) to force the paper or other substrate against the printing surface. Later also: (in offset printing) the resilient material on the surface of a cylinder which receives the inked image from the plate, now typically made of synthetic rubber.Cf. offset blanket n., press blanket n.
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > layer of cloth over type to equalize pressure
blanket1824
packing1890
society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > platen > cloth to cover platen
blanket1824
a1619 J. Parker in Library (1926) 7 257 Ye printing of this storie cost my father..for a blanket for ye press.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 369 Blankets, Woollen Cloath, or White Bays, to lay between the Tympans.
1758 R. Dossie Handmaid to Arts 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 Typographia II. 648 The blankets must be of fine broad-cloth, or kerseymere.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 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 Brit. Printer 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 Printing World 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.
5. Military. A sheet of combustible material made of paper impregnated with saltpetre and dipped in a mixture of tallow, resin, and sulphur (see quot. 1802). Obsolete. rare.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > naval weapons and equipment > [noun] > incendiary weapons or materials
fire pike1483
fire-hoop1585
fire-wreath1639
fire-crancel1667
fire chemise1728
fire-bavin1779
blanket1816
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. 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.
6. Whaling. The layer of blubber beneath the skin of a whale. Cf. earlier blanket piece n. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > whale-blubber > layer of
blanket-piece1851
blanket1885
1835 T. Beale Few Observ. Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 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 Longman's Mag. Mar. 548 The layer of blubber..called by whalers the ‘blanket’.
1922 Compton's Pictured Encycl. VII. 3726 (caption) Stripping off the blubber blanket.
2007 D. G. Burnett Trying Leviathon iv. 116 This process..involved..winching off strips of the whale's external ‘blanket’ or blubber layer.
7. Esp. in scientific and technical contexts: a layer of gas; spec. a layer of inert gas used to fill empty space in a storage container, in order to protect the contents from oxidation, contamination, combustion, etc.
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1905 Affidavits in Support Argum. Tennessee Copper Company on Application Plaintiff for Preliminary Restraining Order (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 Pop. Mechanic 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 1990 Good Pub Guide 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 Kent & Riegel's Handbk. Industr. Chem. & Biotechnol. II. (ed. 11) 1631/2 Additional techniques for reducing oxidative activity include maintaining nitrogen blankets on oils stored in tanks.
8. A thick layer or strip of material such as fibreglass, used as thermal or acoustic insulation. Also in blanket insulation.
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the world > matter > physics > science of sound > sound-waves > [noun] > insulation against > that which provides
insulation1927
insulator1927
insulant1971
1908 Concrete Feb. 45/2 The peculiar feature of the interior construction is the double blanket of cork lining the inner walls, for insulation.
1912 Insulation of Railway Equip. (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 How to insulate Homes & Farm Buildings ii. 21 Bat insulations are similar to blanket insulations except that they are usually smaller in size and thicker.
1988 Daily Mail DIY Home Interiors 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 Sunday Times 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.
9. A large number of bombs dropped to cause damage to a wide area. Cf. carpet n. 3e.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > number or distribution of bombs
straddle1915
stick1940
salvo1942
blanket1944
carpet1944
pattern1944
1918 Outers' Bk.-Recreation 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 Flight 22 June 661/2 A blanket of bombs is dropped to smother the whole of the area.
2008 Environment & Hist. 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.
10. Nuclear Physics. A layer of material surrounding the central part of an atomic breeder reactor, absorbing the neutrons it produces so as to act as a shield, to remove energy in the form of heat, and esp. to generate new radioactive nuclei to act as fuel. Frequently with modifying word, esp. in breeder blanket, breeding blanket.
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the world > matter > physics > atomic nucleus > nuclear fission > nuclear reactor > [noun] > fertile material in
blanket1955
1946 W. H. Zinn Design Fast Neutron Breeder Test Pile 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 Design Fast Neutron Breeder Test Pile 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 Gloss. Atomic Terms (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 New Scientist 25 Sept. 639/2 The three essential functions of a blanket are neutron moderation, tritium breeding, and heat-transfer.
1994 Sci. & Public Affairs 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 Fairy Tale Nucl. Fusion 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.
a. U.S. (chiefly depreciative or derogatory). Designating various North American Indian peoples who wear a traditional shawl, cloak, or similar garment, esp. as opposed to adopting Western dress or customs; (also) designating a member of such a people. Cf. sense A. 2b. Now historical (only in Blanket Indian n.).
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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
blanket1859
1833 Boston Morning Post 25 Dec. He must be on the Committee on Indian Affairs, for he was certainly a representative of the blanket-tribe.
1866 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 173 There is..great ignorance concerning the location of the prairie or blanket tribes.
1891 M. E. Ryan Told in Hills iii. iii. 166 You should hear her talking Chinook to a blanket brave.
1925 W. F. Hooker Bullwhacker 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 Plague of Doves (2009) 5 The bark huts of the blanket Indians were crushed by the weight of the birds.
b. South African (derogatory and offensive). Designating a black person who wears a traditional shawl, cloak, or similar garment, or who adheres to traditional practices or customs; (hence) unsophisticated, rural. Cf. blanket vote n.Quot. 1877 shows earlier use in red blanket.
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1877 Local Preachers' Mag. & Christian Family Rec. June 170 Three special meetings..were largely attended by red blanket Kaffirs as well as Christian.]
1878 19th Cent. 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 Manch. Courier 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’ Black Man's Burden 55 The older Natives now distinguish between ‘dressed’ and ‘blanket’ Natives.
2001 D. Russell Right before his Very Eyes (e-book, accessed 21 Jan. 2022) 96 ‘Expatriates don't like me, I am just a blanket man’, the driver said.
2. Originally and chiefly U.S. Of a mortgage or loan: intended to finance the construction or purchase of two or more properties.
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1873 Indianapolis Jrnl. 18 Apr. 2/6 Twelve lots two squares east of Woodruff Place. No blanket mortgage.
1973 Federal Home Oct. 32/2 Blanket loans covering an existing home and one to be constructed are proper.
1991 Urban Stud. June 470/1 The builder organises blanket financing for the project, portions of which are then assumed by individual purchasers as first mortgages.
2021 Newstex Blogs (Nexis) 13 Jan. Properties are commonly appraised individually, even under blanket mortgages.
3. Originally U.S. Business and Accounting. Designating a contractual agreement between a customer and a supplier in which goods or services are supplied for a fixed price at regular intervals over a period of time. Cf. call-off n. 3.
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1882 Amer. Stationer 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 Coal Trade Jrnl. 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 Purchasing 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 Times 18 Apr. 6/3 Idemitsu Kosan had a dollar allocation for the blanket purchase of Gulf oil.
2021 Daily Rec. (Baltimore, Maryland) (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.
4. Originally U.S. Covering or including all or many cases, contingencies, situations, etc.; inclusive; all-embracing.Now the usual sense.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > affecting all indiscriminately
unexcepting1716
unexempting1837
all round1867
blanket1886
all1909
1883 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 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 Congress. Rec. 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 Let. 2 Jan. (1920) II. 300 The general blanket-word pragmatism covers so many different opinions.
1935 Economist 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 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 27 Aug. c8/5 I'm told that the CBC..are committed by government mandate to provide blanket coverage of the Commonwealth Games.
2019 Times 19 Jan. 42/1 There is a blanket rule: if you live in a high-crime area, you have the right to be armed.

Phrases

P1. the discipline of the blanket: a form of punishment in which a person is thrown in the air repeatedly from a blanket held slackly at the corners or edges by a group of people. Cf. to toss in a blanket. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket
canvassing1565
blanketing1577
blanket-tossing1881
1709 W. Oldisworth Dial. Timothy & Philatheus 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 Guardian 3 June 2/1 I have..more than once, known the Discipline of the Blanket administer'd to the Offenders.
?1788 New Royal Cycl. 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.
P2. on the wrong side of the blanket: used to indicate that a child is born of parents who are not lawfully married to each other; illegitimate. Similarly also on the right side of the blanket: used to indicate that a child is born of parents who are lawfully married to each other; legitimate. [Perhaps compare earlier blanket love n.]
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate
cheves-bornOE
misbegetc1325
bastc1330
misbegettenc1330
bastard1376
unlawfula1425
naturalc1425
illegitime1502
base1529
base-begot1534
illegitimate1536
misbegotten1554
bastarded1579
misborn1583
nameless1594
spurious1598
unfathered1600
misgotten1623
misbegot1626
baseborn1645
slip-sprung1665
born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675
side wind1738
love-begotten1761
born on the wrong side of the blanket1771
anonymous1869
sinistral1897
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > legitimate
full-bornlOE
born in (or under or out of) wedlockc1275
kindlya1300
mulierc1400
legitimatea1464
mulieryc1475
lawfulc1480
naturala1500
mulierly1506
lawfully1512
native1567
loyal1608
lineala1616
full-begotten1636
(on) the right side of the blanket1842
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 242 I did'n't come on the wrong side of the blanket, girl.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ix. 129 ‘Frank Kennedy,’ he said, ‘was a gentleman, though on the wrong side of the blanket.’
1842 F. Marryat Percival Keene II. i. 100 The captain marrying and having children on the right side of the blanket as they call it.
1919 D. Ashford Young Visiters (1951) v. 34 An old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say.
2017 Musical Times Spring 30 Pergolesi came to father a crop of children on the wrong side of the blanket.
P3. British and Irish English (now historical). on the blanket: designating a prisoner participating in the ‘blanket protest’ in the Maze prison (near Belfast) and elsewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s (see blanket protest n.). Also in to go on the blanket: to participate in the blanket protest.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [adverb] > supporters of Irish Republican cause
on the blanket1977
1977 New Statesman 30 Sept. 439 (heading) The men on the blanket.
1979 An Phoblacht 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 Brit. Govt. in Northern Ireland viii. 158 The first prisoner had gone ‘on the blanket’ in September 1976, refusing to wear prison clothing.
2004 Studies: Irish Q. Rev. 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.
a. General use in various types of compound.
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a1475 Bk. Hawking in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 294 Take new blanket cloth and kut feire pelotis of an ench long.
1520 R. Elyot Will in T. Elyot Gouernour (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 Arctic Explor. I. xvi. 193 Skins and blanket-bags.
1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (London ed.) 197 Mountains blanket-wrapped Round a white hearth of desert.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 68 About the size of the head of a large blanket-pin.
2019 Times 1 June 79/4 Guests sat on blanket-covered hay bales.
b. With agent nouns and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which blanket expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in blanket making, blanket maker, blanket weaver, etc.
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1711 London Gaz. No. 4862/7 Her Majesty..hath been..pleased to Incorporate the Blanket Weavers.
1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 72 It is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at.
1894 Congress. Rec. (53rd Congr., 2nd Sess.) XXVI. App. Pt. ii. 1157/1 McKinley protection stimulated the blanket producers.
1949 Kiplinger's Personal Finance Jan. 39 Soft woolens are hit by slack demand... Blanket makers blame government surplus sales and the electric blanket.
2008 Pakistan Press Internat. (Nexis) 16 Sept. To promote and protect the business interests of the Woollen Mills, Machine made carpets and blanket manufacturers of Pakistan.
C2.
blanket bath n. an all-over wash administered to someone who is bed-bound.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > bathing > a bath > bathing of invalid in bed
blanket bath1917
1846 Med. Times 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 Compl. Syst. Nursing ii. 11 Points to bear in mind when giving a blanket bath.
1962 C. Watson Hopjoy was Here xvi. 180 An ambulent case, no bed pans or blanket baths.
2009 Times 13 Nov. 42 (caption) Nurses often learn more from giving a blanket bath than through a structured interview where boxes are ticked.
blanket bog n. (esp. in Britain and Ireland) a type of bog or wetland formed in cool upland regions by water from rain, snow, or mist that is prevented by humid conditions from evaporating, and is characterized by the accumulation of peat over a wide area; an area or tract of such wetland.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
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marshlandlOE
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oozea1500
bog?a1513
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Camarine1576
gog1583
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sink1594
haga1600
mere1609
flata1616
swamp1624
pocosin1634
frogland1651
slash1652
poldera1669
savannah1671
pond-land1686
red bog1686
swang1691
slack1719
flowa1740
wetland1743
purgatory1760
curragh1780
squall1784
marais1793
vlei1793
muskeg1806
bog-pit1820
prairie1820
fenhood1834
pakihi1851
terai1852
sponge1856
takyr1864
boglet1869
sinkhole1885
grimpen1902
sphagnum bog1911
blanket bog1939
string bog1959
1937 H. Godwin in New Phytologist 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 Brit. Islands & their Vegetation xxxv. 714 The name ‘blanket bog’ was suggested (in 1935) for this kind of vegetation.
1987 New Scientist 8 Jan. 47/2 Like the raised bogs, the blanket bogs receive no ground water, being supplied only by the rain.
2005 Permaculture Mag. Winter 27/3 Moor tops are currently covered mainly by blanket bog.
blanket bond n. Insurance an insurance policy that applies collectively to a group of people or assets; (spec.) a policy of this type taken out by a financial institution which covers losses incurred through dishonest or fraudulent activity by any employee (or sometimes any employee who holds a particular position or type of role).
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance policy > specific types of policy
fire policy1737
valued policy1737
life policy1751
wagering policy1766
wager policy1766
time policy1808
wager-insurance1824
voyage policy1848
ppi1895
floater1900
maintenance contract1915
death futures1993
1887 Bismarck (Dakota) Daily Tribune 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 Financial Times 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 Collector June 33/2 Blanket bonds..apply to all jurisdictions..and are not client specific, so they see a higher frequency of claims.
blanket capot n. North American (now rare) a hooded coat or cloak made from a blanket or similar material; = blanket capote n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for
blanket coat1775
blanket overcoat1822
1804 J. Ordway Jrnl. 10 Dec. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1995) IX. 102 Blanket cappoes provided for each man.
1977 Vincennes (Indiana) Sun-Commercial 20 June 4/6 An old trunk contained a brown coat and vest, 1 gray coat,..1 blanket capot, [etc.].
blanket capote n. North American a long, loose, hooded coat or cloak made from a blanket or similar heavy woven material (= blanket capot n.); cf. blanket coat n.Blanket capotes are often associated with the traditional dress of North American Indian peoples, although historically European settlers and traders in North America also adopted this type of garment.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for
blanket coat1775
blanket overcoat1822
1820 St. Louis (Missouri) Enquirer 4 Nov. He had on when he absconded, either a white blanket capote or a blue jacket.
1865 Soldier's Casket 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 Whispering Wind (Electronic ed.) 28 Feb. 24 His blanket capote with fringed cuffs and hood is held in place by a leather cartridge belt.
blanket coat n. a coat resembling a blanket in some way; (now) esp. a long coat designed to drape around the wearer in a manner similar to a blanket.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for
blanket coat1775
blanket overcoat1822
1698 ‘L. Redivivus’ Æsop at Amsterdam vii. 21 With Blanket-Coat and wooden-Shoes, The Man the Camel scarce outdoes.
1775 Pennsylvania Evening Post 31 Oct. 497/1 Our people had taken from the regulars some blanket coats.
c1805 J. J. Henry Campaign against Quebec (1812) 109 Having on a fine white blanket coat..made me, as it were, invisible in the snow.
1888 T. Roosevelt in Cent. Mag. Oct. 834/2 A powerfully built trapper..who wore a gayly colored capote, or blanket-coat.
2014 Sunday Times 7 Sept. (Style section) 49 Burberry's wonderfully enveloping blanket coats speak of a need for warmth and snug protection.
blanket cylinder n. Printing (chiefly in offset printing) a cylinder lined with a blanket (sense A. 4) against which paper or other material is passed to receive the impression transferred from an inked printing plate or cylinder.
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1852 H. Walker Brit. Patent 597 (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 Publishers' Weekly 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 Lettering (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.
blanket finish n. (in horse racing, athletics, etc.) an extremely close finish in a race (such that a blanket might cover the contestants involved).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > finish
come-in1856
blanket finish1934
photo finish1935
photo1946
1793 Sporting Mag. 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 Brewster (N.Y.) Standard 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 Times 1 Sept. 4/3 Black was beaten by a hairsbreadth in a blanket finish for the silver and bronze medals.
2006 P. McMullen Amazing Pace 196 Eleven hundredths of a second separated the medalists in one of the greatest blanket finishes Olympic swimming had ever produced.
blanket fish n. (a) the giant manta ray, Mobula birostris; (b) North American regional the Arctic grayling, Thymallus arcticus.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Thymallus > member of (grayling)
graylingc1450
umber1496
umbra1610
esch1659
thyme fish1756
bluefish1807
blanket fish1870
Michigan grayling1879
pink1901
shutt1939
1828 H. G. Ward Mexico in 1827 I. App. to Vol. II. 562 The manta, or blanket-fish, is also a very formidable enemy [of pearl fishers].
1870 Amer. Naturalist 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 Village Sci. (Teacher's ed.) (Alaska Native Knowl. Network) i. 10 King salmon are too big to cut like blanket fish.
2019 Ocean & Coastal Managem. 178 3/1 The giant blanket fish, a relative of the shark that can reach 8 m long, is also found in these waters.
blanket flower n. a plant of the genus Gaillardia (family Asteraceae), cultivated for its brightly coloured flowers (see Gaillardia n.). [So called on account of the appearance of its petals (compare quot. 1963).]
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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
ox-eyea1400
starwort?a1450
Jupiter's beard1567
goldenrod1568
achillea1597
blue camomile1597
blue daisy1597
cineraria1597
hog's bean1597
jackanapes on horseback1597
sea-starwort1597
sultan flower1629
mouse-ear1696
aster1706
Canada goldenrod1731
ageratum1737
rudbeckia1751
coreopsis1753
melampodium1754
Aaron's rod1760
zinnia1761
Michaelmas daisy1767
China aster1785
New England aster1785
catananche1798
sea-aster1812
cosmea1813
cosmos1813
gazania1813
erigeron1815
gousblom1822
Christmas daisy1829
rhodanthe1834
tassel-flower1836
ligularia1839
old maid1839
mountain daisy1848
purple coneflower1848
acroclinium1852
sea ox-eye1856
thimble-weed1860
helipterum1862
treasure-flower1866
Swan River daisy1873
blanket flower1879
cone-flower1879
blue marguerite1882
Solidago1883
yellow-top1887
Gaillardia1888
gerbera1889
youth and old age1889
pussytoes1892
niggerhead1893
Transvaal daisy1899
Barberton daisy1906
onion grass1909
ursinia1928
Cupid's dart1930
Livingstone daisy1932
1874 C. W. Seelye Lang. of Flowers 41 Gaillardia, Blanket flower, Good sense.
1963 Oxf. Bk. Garden Flowers 146/2 Gaillardia,..they are sometimes called ‘blanket flower’ because the margins of the petals are like the edging of a blanket.
2016 Border Mail (Austral.) (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.
blanket fort n. an improvised hideout or den, typically for children, made by draping blankets or sheets over items of furniture to create a concealed space in which to play, read, relax, etc.; cf. fort n.1 Additions.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > playhouse
playhouse1789
tree-house1867
Wendy house1949
1959 Sierra Madre (Calif.) News 23 July 2/4 Build blanket fort by clothespinning them to floor-lamps, piano bench, book-cases, etc.
2007 A. Packer Songs without Words 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.
Blanket Indian n. U.S. (chiefly depreciative or derogatory) (now historical) a member of a North American Indian people who wears a traditional shawl, cloak, or similar garment, esp. as opposed to adopting Western dress or customs; cf. sense B. 1a.
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Blanket-Indian, a wild Indian, whose principal article of dress is the blanket.
1889 Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv. West of 100th Meridian (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 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 328/2 Only 26,000 blanket Indians are left in the United States.
1989 Navajo Times (Window Rock, Arizona) 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 Plague of Doves (2009) 5 The bark huts of the blanket Indians were crushed by the weight of the birds.
blanket love n. Obsolete rare illicit love outside of marriage.Cf. on the wrong side of the blanket at Phrases 2.Apparently an isolated use.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > illicit intimacy
lemanry1483
intrigo1648
blanket-lovea1657
intrigue1668
affair1700
connection1791
liaison1816
entanglement1863
mpango wa kando2009
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccxvi, in Poems (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.
blanket overcoat n. U.S. (now somewhat rare) an overcoat resembling a blanket in some way; = blanket coat n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > coat > blanket used for
blanket coat1775
blanket overcoat1822
1822 J. A. Quitman Let. 16 Jan. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. iv. 72 In winter coarse shoes and blanket overcoats.
1954 Arkansas Hist. Q. 13 331 Fortunately I had on a blue blanket overcoat that had belonged to my father.
blanket pack n. now historical a pack consisting of articles or equipment rolled in a blanket; cf. blanket roll n.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > luggage > travelling bag
cloak-bagc1540
mallet1612
Peter1667
sac de nuit1814
carpet-bag1830
roll-up1831
pikau1836
travelling bag1838
swag1853
suit bag1869
bluey1878
Matilda1889
shiralee1892
port1898
handgrip1915
sea-bag1918
blanket pack1920
weekender1929
valpack1934
weekend bag1946
swag bag1951
1856 Lancaster Gaz. 13 Dec. 5/1 Jackson..received another bullet, which, however, lodged in his blanket pack, without doing any harm.
1920 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 220/1 Only one small tin of corned beef remained in his blanket-pack.
2009 H. S. Owens Stand & Face Morning 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.
blanket piece n. now historical a large strip or sheet of blubber stripped from beneath the skin of a whale; cf. sense A. 6.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > cut or piece of meat > [noun] > other pieces of meat
breastleta1571
butt piece1750
blanket-piece1851
subprimal1970
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > whale-blubber > layer of
blanket-piece1851
blanket1885
1827 Nantucket Inquirer 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 Year with Whaler xii. 140 The largest blanket pieces weighed perhaps ten tons.
2003 E. Mathews Ambassador to Penguins 269 Once hoisted aboard, the blanket pieces were cut and minced.
blanket prisoner n. British and Irish English (now historical) a prisoner participating in the ‘blanket protest’ in the Maze prison (near Belfast) and elsewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s (see blanket protest n.); cf. blanket man n. 3.
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1978 New Statesman 15 Dec. 813/3 Cases of four blanket prisoners are already speeding through the..procedures employed by the [European] Commission [of Human Rights].
2001 Belfast News Let. (Nexis) 1 Jan. (Features section) 27 Former IRA blanket prisoner..becomes Northern Ireland's first Sinn Fein mayor.
blanket protest n. British and Irish English (now historical) a form of protest by supporters of the Irish republican cause held in the Maze prison (near Belfast) and elsewhere in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in which the prisoners refused prison uniforms and were given blankets to wear; cf. on the blanket.See also blanket man n. 3, blanket prisoner n.In 1976 the British government began to phase out the 'Special Category Status' which had provided Irish republican prisoners with privileges as de facto prisoners of war, such as being allowed to wear ordinary clothes. The ensuing 'blanket protest' escalated into a ‘dirty protest’ (dirty protest n.) and hunger strikes.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > [noun] > demonstration > types of demonstration or protest
counterprotest1595
student demonstration1856
lie-in1867
rent strike1881
hunger strike1889
march1908
protest march1914
occupation1920
lie-down1936
sit-down1936
sit-in1936
freedom march1947
vigil1956
freedom walk1957
swim-in1960
freedom ride1961
sitting in1961
sleep-out1961
fish-in1964
live-in1964
stall-in1964
sleep-in1965
Long March1967
love-in1967
talk-in1967
write-in1967
die-in1970
dirty protest1979
blanket protest1982
1977 Fortnight Dec. 18/2 Our first ‘blanket protest’ was arranged for 5 o'clock.
1982 U. O'Connor in B. Sands Skylark sing your Lonely Song 12 His description of his companions in the blanket protest has a stark reality that no photograph could reproduce.
2018 T. Murtagh Maze Prison 237 He..claimed that it was the staff that set off the blanket protest by issuing him with a blanket.
blanket roll n. originally U.S. Military (now historical) a soldier's or traveller's kit consisting of articles or equipment rolled in a blanket; cf. blanket pack n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > [noun] > equipment for specific occasion
fleabag1811
heavy (marching) order1836
drill order1837
marching order1848
field-day order1874
review order1874
blanket-roll1891
1865 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 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 Dundee Courier 24 July 3/3 They carried heavy rucksacks, bulging blanket rolls, carrier bags.
2005 Times 9 Feb. 65/2 In Adams's blanket roll were his diaries since 1941 and his father's letters—not much else.
blanket shawl n. a large shawl made of wool or similar material.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > shawl > types of
zephyr1774
zendaletto1789
rebozo1807
cashmere1822
India shawl1822
Paisley shawl1823
blanket shawl1837
pashmina1837
merino1839
Paisley1849
fascinator1853
phulkari1887
turn-over1891
manton1920
lappa1954
1804 Lancaster Gazetter 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 Southern Literary Messenger 3 660 The blanket shawls with their varied coloring looked pretty and comfortable.
1978 Daily Mail 1 Apr. 35/2 The 19th-century woollen mill..produces pure wool blanket-shawls in traditional colours and patterns.
2004 Times 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.
blanket sheet n. U.S. (now historical) a newspaper in folio form.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > other types of newspaper
gazette1607
contemporary1670
packet1678
exchange1798
funny paper1837
blanket sheet1839
broadsheet1840
special1861
cocoa press1907
bladder1936
regional1958
electronic paper1967
free1982
1830 N.-Y. Morning Herald 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 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 765/2 The old ‘blanket-sheet’ newspaper, cumbrous to handle and slow in all its ways.
1932 Amer. Ann. of Deaf 77 390 In form, the daily is a blanket sheet so that its preparation requires a minimum of mechanical work.
1993 J. E. Steele Sun shines for All 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.
blanket sleeper n. originally and chiefly North American a one-piece sleepsuit made of a soft, warm material and used to clothe a baby or young child at night as an alternative to using blankets.In quot. 1952 in Beacon blanket sleeper, denoting a sleeper made from a brand of blanket manufactured by Beacon Manufacturing Company.
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1952 Bakersfield Californian 31 July 8 (advt.) Cuddles Snuggle Dolls... Dressed in adorable Beacon blanket sleeper.]
1955 Montana Standard 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. Due West 167 It was evening. I bathed Theo and got him into his blanket sleeper.
2017 H. Ephron You'll never know, Dear ii. 17 Standing beside five-year-old Lis was Janey, a sturdy toddler wearing a blanket sleeper.
blanket sluice n. now historical (in gold mining) a trough or chute in which coarse woven material is laid, through which water containing crushed or powdered ore is passed to catch fine particles of gold or amalgam.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > other places in mine
work1474
firework1606
stemple1653
stool1653
bink1675
engine pit1687
swamp1691
feeder1702
wall1728
bag1742
sill1747
stope1747
rose cistern1778
striking-house1824
plat1828
stemplar1828
screen chamber1829
offtake1835
footwall1837
triple pit1839
stamp1849
paddock1852
working floor1858
pit house1866
ground-sluice1869
screen tower1871
planilla1877
undercurrent1877
mill1878
blanket-sluice1881
stringing-deal1881
wagon-breast1881
brushing-bed1883
poppet-leg1890
slippet1898
stable1906
overcut1940
1869 U.S. Patent 92,893 (title) Endless blanket sluice.
1926 C. W. Henderson Mining in Colorado 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 Jrnl. Soc. Industr. Archeol. 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.
blanket stiff n. North American slang (now historical) an itinerant labourer, typically a man, whose possessions are wrapped in a blanket or bedroll when travelling (see earlier blanket man n. 2); cf. also bindle-stiff.Usually derogatory or depreciative, having negative associations with begging, homelessness, etc.Occasionally used of a woman. [ < blanket n. + stiff n. (compare stiff n. 4).]
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp > carrying belongings
swagman1851
swagger1855
swagsman1869
swaggie1892
bagman1896
drummer1898
battler1900
bindle-man1900
bindle-stiff1900
bluey-humper1903
bag lady1972
bag woman1977
1879 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 13 Nov. 4/2 Conductors and brakemen can't bear these fellows that carry blankets. They are called blanket stiffs on the road.
1912 Industr. Worker (Spokane, Washington) 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 Endangered Dreams (1997) ii. 45 Migrants were not workers to be treated with dignity, but hoboes, blanket stiffs, to be shunned by mainstream society.
blanket toss n. the action or an act of throwing a person into the air repeatedly from a blanket or similar item held slackly at the corners or edges (cf. to toss in a blanket); spec. (among the Inupiaq people of northern Alaska) such an action performed as a customary celebration of the end of the whaling season (see Nalukataq n.). [In use with reference to Alaska after Inupiaq nalukataq Nalukataq n.]
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > tossing about > tossing in a blanket
blanketing1577
blanket-tossing1881
1877 Detroit Free Press 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 N.Y. Times 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 Eskimo N. Alaska iv. 54 Of all the Eskimo ceremonial customs, the nalukatak or ‘blanket toss’ is perhaps most well known.
2014 T. N. Brown Charlie & Blanket Toss (front matter) Charlie loves to watch his relatives and friends get thrown high in the air during the traditional Ihupiat blanket toss.
blanket-tossed adj. (of a person) thrown in the air repeatedly from a blanket held slackly at the corners or edges by a group of people; cf. to toss in a blanket. [Originally after Spanish manteado; compare earlier blanketed adj. 1 and the discussion at that entry.]
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [adjective] > tossing about > in a blanket
blanket-tossed1881
blanketed-
1881 A. J. Duffield tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. 374 The blanket-tossed Squire [Sp. manteado escudero].
2004 Hotline (Nexis) 26 Oct. Back ‘up in the air’ like a blanket-tossed lady.
blanket tossing n. the action or practice of throwing a person in the air repeatedly from a blanket held slackly at the corners or edges by a group of people; cf. to toss in a blanket. [Originally after Spanish manteamiento (ultimately < mantear to toss in a blanket; compare the discussion at blanketed adj.); compare earlier blanketing n. 2.]
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > tossing in a blanket
canvassing1565
blanketing1577
blanket-tossing1881
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > tossing about > tossing in a blanket
blanketing1577
blanket-tossing1881
1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote 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 Don Quixote I. 369 Never a word did he say of the blanket tossing [Sp. manteamiento] .
1913 Daily Mail 5 Aug. 6 (caption) On the right a picture of blanket-tossing by London Territorials in Arundel Park.
2020 Ottawa Citizen (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.
blanket vote n. South African (derogatory and offensive) (now historical) (in South Africa) the votes of black people who wear a traditional shawl, cloak, or similar garment, or who adhere to traditional practices or customs; the votes of black people more generally.
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1877 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 13 Apr. 487/1 An inferior man..had been sent to the Cape parliament through the influence of the ‘blanket’ vote.
1909 Times 24 May 44/2 Neither Natal..nor the Transvaal..would in their present mood admit the ‘blanket’ vote.
1997 R. Vigne Liberals against Apartheid 3 White fears of being ‘swamped’ by the ‘blanket vote’ of the Transkeians demanded their disenfranchisement.
blanket weed n. any of various filamentous green or yellow-green algae that form slimy green films and mats in ponds and other bodies of fresh and brackish water.Such algae may belong to widely disparate genera, such as Cladophora (a chlorophyte), Spirogyra (a charophyte), and Vaucheria (a xanthophyte).
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the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > other algae
slake?a1505
laver1611
sea purse1769
water-net1821
red snow1825
red snow plant1836
hydrodictyon1841
Protococcus1842
snow plant1846
purple laver1847
red snow alga1848
gory dew1861
yellow cell1861
spirogyra1875
blanket-weed1879
phycochrome1881
zoochlorella1882
chlamydomonas1884
zygnemid1887
gonyaulax1902
chlorella1904
chlorophyte1937
1860 Rep. Select Comm. Serpentine 63 in Parl. Papers (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 Parl. Papers (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 Green Mag. 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 BBC Gardeners' World (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.

Forms: Past tense and participle -eted.
Etymology: < blanket n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblanket.
1. transitive. To cover with or as with a blanket.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > with cloth or textile > specific
mat1549
down1602
blanket1608
rug1818
quilt1840
towel1865
felt1883
tarpaulin1891
velvet1959
tarp1979
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 176 My face ile grime with filth, Blanket my loynes, else all my haire with knots.
1865 F. Parkman Champlain i, in Pioneers of France in New World 194 The rocks, the shores, the pine-trees..all alike were blanketed in snow.
1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary iii. ii. 122 Blanketed In ever-closing fog.
1884 Roe in Harper's Mag. Feb. 452/2 The horses were sheltered as well as possible, and heavily blanketed.
1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 198 The face of the water was blanketed with wild bees buzzing sullenly and stinging all they found.
1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous 106 Just before the fog blanketed the sea once again.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. 478 The heavy mist blanketing the uprising shore.
1910 J. Simon in Times 11 Oct. 10/2 It was a free country,..and he had no intention to blanket his opinion.
1962 Economist 3 Nov. 456/1 The energetic campaign..with which Mr Kennedy was blanketing the country.
2.
a. Yachting. To cover a yacht with the sail of another passing to windward; to take the wind out of the sails of. Also figurative.
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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
shamec1400
to put down1494
extinguish1551
stain1557
overshadow1581
cloud1582
defacea1592
shend1596
to lay up1601
to shine down1623
dazzle1643
umbrage1647
foila1687
efface1717
eclipse1718
shade?1748
put into the shade1796
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
to put to shame1854
to leave (a person) standing1864
to lay over1869
blanket1884
upstage1921
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
encalm1562
becalmc1595
beleea1616
calma1616
blanket1884
1884 G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxv. 191 It is difficult to pass to leeward while blanketed by the sail of a yacht to windward.
1900 G. Ade More Fables (1902) 44 She had her Upper Rigging set, and was trying to Blanket everything on the Street.
1923 Weekly Dispatch 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.
b. To exclude (a radio signal) from reception by the use of a stronger signal. Const. out.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > communicate by radio [verb (transitive)] > exclude signal
blanket1938
1938 Nation 12 Mar. 301/1 The blanketing out of American broadcasts to South America by Berlin and Rome.
1952 Economist 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.
3. To toss in a blanket (as a rough punishment.)
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (transitive)] > toss in blanket
canvass1508
blanket1616
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > agitate [verb (transitive)] > toss about > in blanket
to toss in a blanket1526
blanket1616
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne v. iv, in Wks. 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 Wks. (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 Cornhill Mag. Apr. 455 The memorable inn..where Sancho was blanketed.
4. To supply with blankets; to furnish with blankets.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > household linen > bedclothes > cover bed [verb (transitive)] > furnish with blankets
blanket1874
1874 Contemp. Rev. 23 466 Schemes of clothing and blanketing whole districts.
1899 Daily News 21 July 8/6 The beds are amply blanketed hammocks.
5.
a. U.S. figurative. To include under one head or category.
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1892 N.Y. Law Jrnl. in Law Times 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.
b. To suppress; to put in the shade.
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1903 N.Y. Sun 6 Nov. 6 In this way the Republican campaign was blanketed.
1908 Springfield Weekly Republican 17 Dec. 4 It so happened that Mr. Taft was completely blanketed by the San Francisco earthquake.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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