blanketing
Pronunciation:
verb
Definitions
To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
Example: A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.
To traverse or complete thoroughly.
Example: The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.
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 it.
noun
Definitions
Cloth for making blankets.
A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
Example: blanketings of snow
The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.