Crossword clues for blinkers
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of blinker English) 2 A pair of leather or rubber eye cups attached to a horse hood in order to impede the rear vision of racehorses and harness horses; blinders in (USA). 3 (context plurale tantum English) A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes from glare, dust, etc. vb. (en-third-person singular of: blinker)
Wikipedia
Blinkers may refer to:
- Turn signals in Automotive lighting
- Blinkers, alternate term for Blinders on the bridle of a horse harness or race horse hood
Blinkers, sometimes known as blinders, are a piece of horse tack that prevent the horse seeing to the rear and, in some cases, to the side. Oxford English Dictionary
- blinker 1."b. Leather screens attached to a horse's bridle on each side, to prevent his seeing in any direction except straight ahead.";
- blinder "2. A blinker for a horse. Also fig., an obstacle to clear judgement or perception. Usu.pl. (Chiefly in U.S.)".
Usage examples of "blinkers".
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.
Straps here and straps there, a bit in my mouth, and blinkers over my eyes.
Things were getting rather sore again, when Merrylegs held up his knowing little face and said, "I'll tell you a secret: I believe John does not approve of blinkers.
Or you want me to wear the blinkers, the better to hoodwink your own eyes.
Thus was she, too, being put into her woman's harness of the bit and the blinkers, and taught to know herself for the weak thing, the gentle parasite, which the fiction of our civilization expects her, caressingly and contemptuously, to become in the active, while it is exacted of hero Comedy of Clowns!
Let but the throb be kept for others--That is the one secret Love must needs be an egoism Not to go hunting and fawning for alliances Portrait of himself by the artist Put into her woman's harness of the bit and the blinkers Share of foulness to them that are for scouring the chamber She disdained to question the mouth which had bitten her The face of a stopped watch The worst of it is, that we remember To do nothing, is the wisdom of those who have seen fools perish We have come to think we have a claim upon her gratitude Whimpering fits you said we enjoy and must have in books End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of One Our Conquerors, v4 by George Meredith ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS By GEORGE MEREDITH 1897 BOOK 5.
He sees things that we don't see—not because they are not there, but because God has put blinkers over our eyes, as we do to horses, so that they may not be distracted but may remain fixed straight upon their work.
What would happen if here too we dared to take off our blinkers and look at the old things with fresh eyes, the eyes of today?
Now his voice fell to a low, angry tone as he finished, " She can't keep you in blinkers all the time.
Danny drove up it in his civilian car, slowing when he saw a barrier of sawhorses with red blinkers, three black-and-whites parked behind it, their headlights beaming out into a weed-strewn vacant lot.
People sat at card tables facing the stage and a combo back-lit by more blue lights: blinkers covered with cellophane.