blanket

blanket has 12 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
• a.. A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
• a.. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
• v. t.. To cover with a blanket.
• v. t.. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
• v. t.. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
• n.. bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep"
• n.. a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
• n.. anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow"
• v.. cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"
• v.. form a blanket-like cover (over)
• a.. broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers"