blanketeer (blangketer)

[ to London with a petition for parliamentary reform, each man having a rug or blanket strapped on his shoulder, so that he might bivouac on the road if nece ary. blanketeer (blang-ket-ēr'), v. i. n.] To act as a blanketeer. [ blanketeer , This epistle awaited her at Beamish's inn on returning from her blanketeering adventure. The Husband Hunter (1830), iii. 230. ( N. and Q., [7th ser., II. 8.)