Definition of Blanket

Blanket

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

To cover with a blanket.

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 her.

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Blanket Quotations

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine

It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
Kate Moss

Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
Dakota Fanning

I can't sit on grass without a blanket.
Tia Carrere

I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
Cicely Tyson

America is not a blanket woven from one thread, one color, one cloth.
Jesse Jackson

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
Jeff Buckley

I wanted this album to sound like a big crocheted blanket - to be warm yet to have a lot of space.
Deana Carter

But he said Blanket Hill should be a national monument. And so we came out of his chambers feeling, though while we had lost to the powers of darkness, we had at least shown one Federal Judge what the right path would have been.
William Kunstler

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
Mary Stewart

At first blush, it seems that the young people who were shot down in the parking lot at the base of Blanket Hill gave up their lives for a dream that died with them.
William Kunstler

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.
Charles Simic

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Blanket Translations

blanket in Afrikaans is deken
blanket in Dutch is deken, dek
blanket in German is Decke, Bettdecke
blanket in Italian is coltre, coperta
blanket in Latin is vestis
blanket in Norwegian is teppe, ullteppe
blanket in Portuguese is cobertor
blanket in Spanish is capa, colcha, manta
blanket in Swedish is filt

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