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blanket
/ˈblæŋkət/
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What does blanket mean?
noun
- A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
- A covering layer of anything.
- A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
More meanings (8)
noun
- A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
adjective
- General; covering or encompassing everything.
verb
- To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
- Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈblæŋkət/
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We rummaged the clothes we’d got, and found eight dollars in silver sewed up in the lining of an old blanket overcoat.
Always have a large blanket at hand to smother flames in burning clothing--also a bucket of water and a quantity of sand.
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There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such, and none but the men and women had these.
Over the top blanket spread a linen or cotton sheet which has been dipped into cold water and wrung out fairly dry.