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blinkers

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blink·er  (blngkr)
n.
1. One that blinks, especially a light that blinks in order to convey a message or warning.
2. blinkers See blinder.
tr.v. blink·ered, blink·er·ing, blink·ers
To put blinders on.
blinkers [ˈblɪŋkəz]
pl n
1. (Individual Sports & Recreations / Horse Training, Riding & Manège) (sometimes singular) Chiefly Brit leather sidepieces attached to a horse's bridle to prevent sideways vision Usual US and Canadian word blinders
2. a slang word for goggle [4]
Translations
blinkers [ˈblɪŋkəz] NPL
1. (Brit) [of horse] → anteojeras fpl
2. (Aut) → intermitentes mpl, direccionales mpl (Mex)
blinkers [ˈblɪŋkərz] npl → œillères fpl
blinkers [ˈblɪŋkəz] npl (Brit) → paraocchi mpl
blinkers [ˈblɪŋkəz] npl (Brit) → paraocchi mpl


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First, a stiff heavy collar just on my neck, and a bridle with great side-pieces against my eyes called blinkers, and blinkers indeed they were, for I could not see on either side, but only straight in front of me; next, there was a small saddle with a nasty stiff strap that went right under my tail; that was the crupper.
Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context
That honest wagoner is thinking of his dinner, getting sadly dry in the oven at this late hour; but he will not touch it till he has fed his horses,--the strong, submissive, meek-eyed beasts, who, I fancy, are looking mild reproach at him from between their blinkers, that he should crack his whip at them in that awful manner as if they needed that hint
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles View in context
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