Definition of "blanketing" in English

noun

1. (uncountable, countable) Cloth for making blankets.

   • 1690, uncredited translator, The History of Scotland by George Buchanan, London: Awnsham Churchil, Book I, p. 23, 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 […]

2. (countable) A layer of something that covers like a blanket.

   • blanketings of snow

3. (uncountable, countable) The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

4. (nautical, slang) A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.

5. (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

1. present participle and gerund of blanket