sb. [f. BLIND v. + -ER1.]
1. He who or that which blinds. Also fig.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, ii. (1617), 22. The same Sunne is the lightner of our eyes … and … the blinder of them.
1829. Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1882), II. 75. To the bodily eye Self is a perpetual blinder.
2. A blinker for a horse. (Chiefly in U.S.)
1809. J. Barlow, Columb., X. 414. Shake off their manacles, their blinders cast.
1856. Emerson, Eng. Traits, v. 92. In common, the horse works best with blinders.
1860. Tristram, Gt. Sahara, ii. 39. The blinders, worn for show and not for use, as none of them reached forward as far as the horse’s eyes.
