blanket

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.

The baby was cold, so his mother put a blanket over him.

The little boys in the front bedroom had thrown off their blankets and lay under the sheets.

A covering layer of anything.

The city woke under a thick blanket of fog.

In this case, the excavations were carried down to a depth of 3 ft. 9 in. below rail level, and pre-cast concrete slabs were laid between a 12 in. blanket of quarry waste and the ballast.

A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.

A press operator must carefully wash the blanket whenever changing a plate.

A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

General; covering or encompassing everything.

Another observer offered a less blanket criticism.

Some others appear to be adopting a more blanket approach

To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.

A fresh layer of snow blanketed the area.

[…] / I will preſerue my ſelfe, and am bethought / To take the baſeſt and moſt pooreſt ſhape, / That euer penury in contempt of man, / Brought neare to beaſt, my face ile grime with filth, / Blanket my loynes, elſe all my haire with knots, / And with preſented nakedness outface, / The wind, and perſecution of the skie, / […]

To traverse or complete thoroughly.

The salesman blanketed the entire neighborhood.

To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

Hang him, poore grogran-raſcall, pray thee thinke not of him: I’le ſend for him to my lodging, and haue him blanketted when thou wilt, man.

Wee'll haue our men blanket 'hem i' the hall.

To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.

To nullify the impact of (someone or something).