blanketing
verb
Meaning
- To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
- To traverse or complete thoroughly.
- To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
- To nullify the impact of someone or something.
- Cloth for making blankets.
- A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
- The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
- A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
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