Word Finder - blankets

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A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

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The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

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A layer of anything.

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The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

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A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

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A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

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A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

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To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

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A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.

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To traverse or complete thoroughly.

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The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.

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To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

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To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.

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To nullify the impact of someone or something.

She pulled the warm blankets over her head.

Just make a pallet with some blankets.

Her pile of blankets was folded next to him.

Give ether and brandy subcutaneously and apply hot water-bottles and blankets if there are signs of collapse.

There are manufactures of fine blankets and sugar-candy.

These consist of coarse blankets and cotton cloths made by the villagers inhabiting the southern tract.

When she re-entered the bedroom, he was propped up on a pillow, his eyes closed and the blankets tucked around his neck.

She lifted the blankets and crawled into bed feeling disappointed.

She scrambled from underneath the wagon and hastily threw her blankets under the seat.

Start with gathering blankets, hot water, a first-aid kit, any sort of bandages they might have.

But even when it's overcast, like today, you can get some interesting images; not so much close ups, but distance shots, with fog rolling down the valley and blankets of flowers shrouded in mist.

Weather in Houston must not get too cold, because he didn't have many blankets.

Her eyes settled on her blankets.

He lay on his back, hands folded on the blankets, eyeing her skeptically.

She struggled up from the blankets and staggered through the living room.

However, don't use any blankets, loose sheets, pillows, or animals in your baby's crib to reduce the incidence of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

To mark their accomplishments along the way, they take part in ceremonies and are awarded patches and badges to proudly add to their uniforms, vests or award blankets.

Vests and blankets are available from on and off line stores that sell Cub Scout uniforms and accessories.

However, according to The Thinking Mother blog, many boys feel a little embarrassed about wearing an extra flashy vest, and use blankets as places to sew their patches instead.

I was dialing my wife to tell her when Martha and Quinn came in the office, pushing a baby carriage with Claire smiling beneath her blankets.

One of the girls grabbed her hand to pull her to the blankets where they'd been sitting while another one tugged at a loose lock of her hair.

The heat has been lowered now that the men have left and it is oh so cold as I lay huddled here beneath my thin blankets.

Men and women worked over large cauldrons of food in one building while young men and women focused on making blankets, clothes, and other textiles in another.

She Traveled back to the panoramic window, where her nest of blankets wasn't the only thing waiting for her.

She picked up a pillow and two blankets, spreading one on the floor a foot from the window before plopping her pillow down.

When he'd gone, Sofi flung off the blankets.

Her eyes blurred but she forced tears away, tossing off the blankets.

No misplaced clothing, and only the blankets on one side of the bed were turned down.

From the wool which their sheep yield they manufacture every article of native dress and good blankets.

The manufacture of woollen blankets, cashmeres, flannels, &c., had also undergone noteworthy development and is carried on in fifteen factories, located principally in Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

A promising home industry, started under English auspices after the war of 1899-1902, is the weaving by women of rugs, carpets, blankets, &c., from native wool.

There are large woollen factories at Cuzco and Lima, the Santa Catalina factory at the latter place turning out cloth and cashmere for the army, blankets, counterpanes and underclothing.

The principal crops are millet, wheat, other food grains, pulse, oilseeds and cotton; there is some manufacture of cotton-cloth and blankets, and there are ginning factories in the town.

The principal manufactures include leather, carpets, woollen goods, flannels, blankets, lace, boots and shoes; and fisheries and shipbuilding are also carried on.

On the outskirts of the city, near Eastlake Park, is the Indian Crafts Exhibition, which contains rare collections of aboriginal handiwork, and where Indians may be seen making baskets, pottery and blankets.

The warrior painted the story of conflicts on his robe only in part, to help him recount the history of his life; the Eskimo etched the prompters of his legend on ivory; the Tlinkit carved them on his totem post; the women fixed them in pottery, basketry, or blankets.

Loom-weaving in its simplest form began with the Chilkats of Alaska, who hung the warp over a long pole, and wrought mythological figures into their gorgeous blankets by a process resembling tapestry work.

They bought practically all of what is now Essex county from the Indians for "fifty double hands of powder, one hundred bars of lead, twenty axes, twenty coats, ten guns, twenty pistols, ten kettles, ten swords, four blankets, four barrels of beer, ten pairs of breeches, fifty knives, twenty horses, eighteen hundred and fifty fathoms of wampum, six ankers of liquor (or something equivalent), and three troopers' coats."

The chief industries are the making of blankets, carpets, druggets and worsted yarn; and there are iron foundries and machinery works.

Large factories are now to be found in all parts of Mexico, and good and serviceable grades of broadcloths, cassimeres, blankets and other fabrics are turned out.

The common soldiers were promoted for acts of daring, and the children of chiefs were regularly trained to war, and initiated by being sent into battle with veterans, with whose aid the youth took his first prisoner, but his future rise depended on how many captives he took unaided in fight with warlike enemies; by such feats he gained the dignity of wearing coloured blankets, tassels and lip-jewels, and reached such military titles as that of " guiding eagle."

The exports are chiefly oxen, meat, fowls and eggs for Gibraltar and sometimes for Spain, with occasional shipments of slippers and blankets to Egypt.

Already famous for its plaids and blankets, the prosperity of the burgh advanced when it took up the manufacture of tweeds.

The manufactures of less importance are tussore-silk, paper, blankets, brass utensils, firearms, carpets, coarse cutlery and hardware, leather, ornaments of gold and silver, &c. Of minerals - lead, silver and copper exist in the Bhagalpur division, but the mines are not worked.

The land was purchased from the Indians for 6 coats, 10 blankets, r kettle, 12 hatchets, 12 hoes, 24 knives and 12 small mirrors.

The chief crops are cotton and flax; the chief manufactures are blankets and cotton cloth.

The demand of the Indian population for woollen fabrics is very small in comparison with that for cotton, and although the manufacture of blankets is carried on in many parts of India, the chief part of the indigenous woollen industry was originally concerned with shawls.

Sclater, these when used as blankets are said to be beneficial in cases of rheumatism; an ointment prepared from the fat of the animal being employed for the same purpose.

Their origin and also that of certain so-called scarfs and blankets is from carbonates deposited by water trickling down a sloping and corrugated surface.

On their return trip the wagons often brought loads of wool, fur and blankets.