blanketing noun5 •A layer of something that covers like a blanket.The stream made loops of water round their ankles. But none of that could show clearly through the swaddlings and blanketings of the Cambridge night. — 1922 •The provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains. •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. — 1882 •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? — 1728 •A maneuver in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails. formsblanketings
