Blanketing

Quick meaning: Blanketing is a noun meaning (uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.

Meaning

(uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
2. (uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
3. (nautical, slang) A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
4. present participle and gerund of blanket
5. (rail transport) The provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.

Example Sentences

blanketings of snow

Then Dick lay down in the dried ferns and covered himself with a piece of the striped flannel which they used for blanketing […]

The stream made loops of water round their ankles. But none of that could show clearly through the swaddlings and blanketings of the Cambridge night.

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?

Word Forms

• blanketings

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