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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Blanket  \Blan"ket\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Blanketed};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Blanketing}.] 
  1.  To  cover  with  a  blanket. 
 
  I'll  .  .  .  blanket  my  loins.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  To  toss  in  a  blanket  by  way  of  punishment. 
 
  We'll  have  our  men  blanket  'em  i'  the  hall.  --B. 
  Jonson 
 
  3.  To  take  the  wind  out  of  the  sails  of  (another  vessel)  by 
  sailing  to  windward  of  her 
 
  {Blanket  cattle}.  See  {Belted  cattle},  under  {Belted}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Blanketing  \Blan"ket*ing\,  n. 
  1.  Cloth  for  blankets. 
 
  2.  The  act  or  punishment  of  tossing  in  a  blanket. 
 
  That  affair  of  the  blanketing  happened  to  thee  for 
  the  fault  thou  wast  guilty  of  --Smollett. 




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