blanketing

Verb

• Present participle of blanket

Noun

• Cloth for making blankets.
• A layer of something that covers like a blanket.
• The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.
• A manoeuvre in which one vessel covers or becalms another with its sails.
• Provision of a layer under the trackbed to prevent clay subsoil and water being forced to the surface by the weight of trains.