blanketing

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(uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets. / (countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket. / (uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

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The textile mill shipped a truckload of blanketing to the cooperatives to make blankets for the winter relief program.

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(uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.

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 […]

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(countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket.

blanketings of snow

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(uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

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 knows Our purgings, pumpings, blanketings and blows?

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(nautical, slang) A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.

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.

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(rail transport) Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.

The track blanketing required excavation of up and down main lines to a depth of 4½ft below rail level for 1⅜ miles, to allow the defective track bed to be removed and replaced by a new formation. … a layer of polythene was employed by the E.R. at the base of the new formation; … On top of the polythene is laid the sand, as a blanketing and drainage medium, and above that the ballast.

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blanketings （ 複数形 ）