Pa. t. and pple. -eted. [f. the sb.]

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  1.  trans. To cover with or as with a blanket.

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1605.  Shaks., Lear, II. iii. 10. My face Ile grime with filth, Blanket my loines, elfe all my haires in knots.

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1865.  Parkman, Champlain, i. (1875), 194. The rocks, the shores, the pine-trees … all alike were blanketed in snow.

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1884.  Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Feb., 452/2. The horses were sheltered as well as possible, and heavily blanketed.

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  2.  Yachting. To cover a yacht with the sail of another passing to windward; to take the wind out of the sails of.

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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.

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  3.  To toss in a blanket (as a rough punishment.)

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1609.  B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., V. iv. (1616), 595. Wee’ll haue our men blanket ’hem i’ the hall.

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1634.  Heywood, Maidenh. lost, III. 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.

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1867.  Cornh. Mag., April, 455. The memorable inn … where Sancho was blanketed.

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