Pa. t. and pple. -eted. [f. the sb.]
1. trans. To cover with or as with a blanket.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. iii. 10. My face Ile grime with filth, Blanket my loines, elfe all my haires in knots.
1865. Parkman, Champlain, i. (1875), 194. The rocks, the shores, the pine-trees all alike were blanketed in snow.
1884. Roe, in Harpers Mag., Feb., 452/2. The horses were sheltered as well as possible, and heavily blanketed.
2. Yachting. To cover a yacht with the sail of another passing to windward; to take the wind out of the sails of.
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.
3. To toss in a blanket (as a rough punishment.)
1609. B. Jonson, Sil. Wom., V. iv. (1616), 595. Weell haue our men blanket hem i the hall.
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.
1867. Cornh. Mag., April, 455. The memorable inn where Sancho was blanketed.