Sekirov Dictionary

blinder

UK /ˈblaɪndə/US /ˈblaɪndɚ/

noun 7
verb 2
forms 3

noun7

Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.
A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
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[plural only] A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
- From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision. — 1969
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Something that impairs visual or mental perception in a way figuratively compared to horses' blinders.
- Orientalism itself, furthermore, was an exclusively male province; like so many professional guilds during the modern period, it viewed itself and its subject matter with sexist blinders. — 1978
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A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
- When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […] — 1992
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(UK, slang) An exceptional performance.
- He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
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(slang) A bout of heavy drinking.
- If a man goes out on a blinder, he might be charged with being drunk and incapable and therefore have a criminal record, although he is an honourable man. — 1985

verb2

To fit (a horse) with blinders.
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(figurative) To obstruct the vision of.
- […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky — 1958

forms

blindered · blindering · blinders

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