blinder

From blind +‎ -er.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈblaɪndə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈblaɪndɚ/

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blinder

1. comparative form of blind: more blind
   • 1830, William Pashley, The Voice of Reason in Defence of the Christian Faith:

     Ye who arrogate to yourselves that ye see more, or at least are not so blind as others; in your unbelieving conduct, allow me to say, ye are blinder than others; ye are even blinder than the most ignorant and illiterate.

blinder (plural blinders)

1. Something that blinds.
   • 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 15, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.:

     As it was, innocence was his blinder.

   • 2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra‎, performed by The Lumineers:

     I, I, got a new girlfriend / She feels like he's on top / And I don't feel no remorse / And you can't see past my blinders

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.
   • 1969, Kenzaburō Ōe, chapter 5, in John Nathan, transl., A Personal Matter, New York: Grove Press, page 84:

     From both sides of his head a blackness swiftly grew like blinders on a horse and darkly narrowed his field of vision.

   • 1978, Edward Said, Orientalism, New York: Vinatage, published 2003, Chapter 3, Part I, p. 207:

     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.

4. (British, slang) An exceptional performance.

   He played a blinder this afternoon on the cricket ground.

   • 1992, Glyn Maxwell, “Out of the Rain”, in Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990 to 1995, New York: Houghton Mifflin, published 2000, page 91:

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

5. (slang) A bout of heavy drinking; a bender.
   • 1985 May 2, John Maxton, Hansard:

     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.

6. (theater) A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
   • 1992, The Lighting Journal, page 9:

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

• (horse's blindfold): blinker, winker
• (exceptional performance): cracker

• peaky blinder

blinder (third-person singular simple present blinders, present participle blindering, simple past and past participle blindered)

1. (transitive) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
2. (transitive, figurative, by extension) To obstruct the vision of.
   • 1958, Sylvia Plath, “Above the Oxbow”, in The Collected Poems, New York: Harper & Row, page 88:

     We climb in hopes / Of such seeing up the leaf-shuttered escarpments, / Blindered by green, under a green-grained sky

   • 1986, Tessa Albert Warschaw, Rich is Better: How Women Can Bridge the Gap Between Wanting and Having It All — Financially, Emotionally, Professionally, Penguin, page 248:

     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.

• Brindle, brindle

From blinde +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /blɛ̃.de/

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blinder

1. to armor; to reinforce

• blindage

• → Italian: blindare
• → Portuguese: blindar
• → Spanish: blindar

• “blinder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɪndɐ/

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blinder

1. comparative degree of blind

blinder

1. inflection of blind:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

blinder

1. blind
2. invisible, obscure

• Swedish: blind

From blin +‎ -der.

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈblɪndɛr/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈblɪndar/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈblɪndɛr/

blinder m (plural blinderau)

1. (uncountable) tiredness, weariness, fatigue

   Synonyms: lludded, blinderusrwydd, blinedd

2. (uncountable) (of soil) exhausted

   Synonyms: disbyddedig, disbydd

3. (uncountable) tedium

   Synonym: diflastod

4. (usually countable) trouble, affliction, distress

   Synonyms: cystudd, trallod, adferth, ttafferth, gofid, poen

• blinderog (“weary, tired, tiring”)
• blinderol (“tired, tiring, annoying, tedious”)
• blinderus (“wearisome, tiring; troublesome, troubling”)
• diflinder (“tirelessness”)
• gorflinder (“exhaustion, fatigue”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “blinder”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies