vbl. sb. In 3 -fellunge, fallunge. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of covering up the eyes; hoodwinking; the apparatus used in the action; the state produced.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 6. Uor hore blindfallunge. Ibid., 188. Godes pinen … buffetes, spotlunge, blindfellunge.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xvi. 94. Lustes and likings … bee as blindfoldings to keepe vs from seeing God.
1793. T. Beddoes, Math. Evid., 65. Actual blind-folding and muffling.
