Definition of "blanketing" noun countable and uncountable , plural blanketings
(uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets . quotations examples
Quotations But , now -a -days , many of them wear their Apparel of a dark brown colour , almost like Heath , that so , lying in the Heath -bushes , they might not , in the day -time , be discovered by their Cloaths . Being rather loosly happ ’d , than closely covered , with this sort of Blanketing , they endure the fiercest weather […]
1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23
(countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket . quotations examples
Quotations Did one want grilled mushrooms , English fashion , they were there , black and moist and sizzling , and extremely edible ; did one desire mushrooms à la Russe , they appeared , blanched and cool and toothsome under their white blanketing of sauce .
1914, Saki, chapter 4, in When William Came, London: John Lane, page 64
(uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket . quotations examples
Quotations Himself among the storied chiefs he spies ,As from the blanket high in air he flies ,And oh ! (he cry 'd ) what street , what lane but knowsOur purgings , pumpings , blanketings and blows ?
1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Second”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, page 22
(nautical, slang) A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails . quotations
Quotations The latter hailed for water , and was so much more nimble in coming round , that she managed to get on ‘Gwendolin ’s ’ weather before she had gathered way , and gave her such a complete blanketing as left her almost in irons .
1894, Edward Sullivan et al., Yachting, London: Longmans, Green, Volume I, Chapter , p. 144