Crossword clues for blinder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blinder \Blind"er\, n.
One who, or that which, blinds.
(Saddlery) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, agent noun from blind (v.). Especially of blinkers for horses from c.1800, often figurative. Related: Blinders.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: blind) n. 1 Something that blinds 2 a bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted 3 A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side. 4 (context British slang English) An exceptional performance
WordNet
Wikipedia
Blinder or Blinders may refer to:
- Blinder (surname)
- Blinders, also known as blinkers, a part of some types of equine bridle that blocks a horse's vision to the side and rear.
- Blinders (poultry), a similar device that blocks forward vision for chickens
- Blinder (film), a 2013 Australian film
- The NATO reporting name for the Tupolev Tu-22 bomber
- The term "navigational blinders" refers to the United States Army Corps of Engineers policy which prohibited the Corps from considering environmental, health and safety, or any other features when deciding on whether to issue a permit, subject to the Rivers and Harbors Act, Sections 9 and 10.
Blinder is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Alan Blinder (born 1945), American economist
- Martin Blinder (born 1937), forensic psychiatrist
- Naoum Blinder (1889-1965), Ukrainian-American virtuoso violinist and teacher
- Olga Blinder (born 1921), Paraguayan artist
- Seymour Blinder (born 1932), Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Michigan
Blinder is a 2013 Australian film directed by Richard Gray and starring Oliver Ackland, Rose McIver, Anna Hutchison and Jack Thompson. The film is an Australian rules football drama set predominately in Torquay, Victoria. The film centers around Tom Dunn, an aspiring football star who fled Australia following a scandal. Dunn returns to Australia to restore his reputation.
Usage examples of "blinder".
It was a blinder, but at least, now sober, he could no longer hear the voice of a certain Larry.
They shared few visions nowadays, though - which was why, when Nicholas pulled his blinder routine, Sabrina suffered.
Been blinder than one of those varnished skulls some tough-stomached people use for paper-weights.
The horses wore no blinders and the long white hair around their unshod hooves was flung from side to side by their dancing feet.
Managed the laundering just fine, but she wore a sturdy set of blinders when it came to her sister, Brita.
It was as if Deanna fought in a stupor with blinders and padded gloves.
Die erstere Eigenschaft sei die periodische Wirkung blinder Habgier der Kaufleute.
Twin-engine Blinder bombers could deliver their heavy bombloads after running in low and fast.
Aulus took a deep breath, hoped he had searched out the proper language to pry the blinders off Claudius, and then launched into a lengthy, well-documented warning on the activities of Agrippina and Pallas.
There was something so captivating in his light way of touching these fantastic strings, and he was such a mirthful child by the side of the graver childhood we had seen, that he made my guardian smile even as he turned towards us from a little private talk with Mrs. Blinder.
He usually lumbered up, his legs feeling heavy, his eyes directed down, not even looking side to side, moving like a man wearing blinders, afraid to look, afraid to see and to realize what was going on around him.
Two iguanas rode on its head, their bodies curving down to make blinders for its eyes, their tails curled tight around its antlers.
Whatever blinders I still steered with thereupon fell from me, and I saw the chimera of my life.
For all the time and effort they spent plotting and planning, they were even blinder than the insulated Heart Worlders, for they saw Fringers only as obstacles, not as people, and certainly not as fellow citizens.
Firelight on the trotting horse Fleet Shadow's long skull, empty as Providence, watching it all in blinders.