blinder
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
- comparative form of blind
blinder (plural blinders)
- Something that blinds.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 15,
- As it was, innocence was his blinder.
- 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 15,
- A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
- A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
- 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,
- From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.
- 1978 Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207,
- 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.
- 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, A Personal Matter, translated by John Nathan, New York: Grove Press, Chapter 5, p. 84,
- (British, slang) An exceptional performance.
- He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.
- 1992, Glyn Maxwell, "Out of the Rain" in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, p. 91,
- And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out
- (slang) A bout of heavy drinking, a bender.
- 1985, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/]
- 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, John Maxton, Hansard, 2 May, 1985, [https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/]
blinder (blinders, present participle blindering; past and past participle blindered)
- (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
- (transitive, figurative, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.
- 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,
- […] We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky
- 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, p. 248,
- They think they're being focussed when they're really just blindering their eyes, as a farmer would a plough horse, to ways of getting to their goal faster.
- 1958, Sylvia Plath, "Above the Oxbow" in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, p. 88,
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