blinder

Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

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.

As it was, innocence was his blinder.

Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.

And we asked the blue winger, who in our game / had played what they call a blinder, to help out

Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

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.

Something that blinds, literally or figuratively.

When the 'blinders' are switched off, and the audience's eyes given time to re-adjust, the new scene is in place […]

To fit (a horse) with blinders.

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

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.