blanketing

== English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, blanket +‎ -ing. === Pronunciation === === Noun === blanketing (countable and uncountable, plural blanketings) (uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets. 1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23,[2] 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 […] (countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket. blanketings of snow (uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. (nautical, slang) A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails. (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. === Verb === blanketing present participle and gerund of blanket === References ===