blanketing

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Cloth for making blankets.

   “Then the blanketing tickles—you feel like mixed pickles—so terribly sharp is the pricking, And you’re hot, and you’re cross, and you tumble and toss till there’s nothing ’twixt you and the ticking.”

2. isim A layer of something that covers like a blanket.

   “blanketings of snow”

3. isim 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?”

4. isim A maneuver 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.”

5. isim The provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.
6. fiil present participle and gerund of blanket