sb. [f. BLANKET.]
1. Material for blankets; supply of blankets.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 25. No place yields Blanketing so notoriously white, as … Witney.
1735. Phil. Trans., XXXIX. 42. A narrow Ring of thick Blanketting.
1839. F. Barham, Adamus Exul, 42. Love Night’s pitchy blanketing.
1879. McCarthy, Own Times, II. xxvii. 317. Clothing, blanketing, provisions … were destroyed in vast quantities.
1898. F. E. Younghusband in 19th Cent., Feb., 483. A soil, protected as it is in winter from the severe cold by a deep blanketing of snow.
2. Taking the wind out of the sails of a yacht by passing to windward of it. Cf. BLANKET v. 2.
1883. Times, 27 Aug., 8/2. The Marjorie coming with good way on, raced past Lorna’s weather side, and then went on and gave Neptune a blanketing.
3. The punishment of tossing in a blanket.
1577. Holinshed, Chron., II. 547. Iesting, plaicing, blanketing, and … such other filthie and dishonorable exercises.
1621. Fletcher, Thierry, II. Wks. 457. The worst that can come Is blanketing; for beating … I have been long acquainted with.
a. 1754. Fielding, To keep Wife at H., I. i. This affair, Sir, may end in a blanketing.
1808. Hurstone, Piccadilly Ambulator, II. 53. Expose him to the chance of either undergoing a blanketting or a cudgelling.
4. Mining. The catching of ore in suspension by a blanket-sluice; the ore thus caught.
1884. Athenæum, 3 May, 570/3. Yield of gold … from pyrites and blanketings operated on 4,387 ounces.
