Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See blens.

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  • noun Plural form of blind.
  • noun window coverings, especially vertical blinds, wood blinds, roller blinds, pleated blinds.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blind.

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Examples

  • Stealing the blinds is a well-known move by all poker players.

    Online Poker – Poker Hands That Are a Danger | Poker Hands 2009

  • There was hunters set up right next to there red trucks in blinds w/binocs.

    Planning A Turkey Hunt To Kansas 2009

  • With hunting usually being a very quiet, slow paced endeavor, I think sitting in blinds wastes your opportunity to get noisy and crazy in the process of fooling and killing a hypersensitive, relatively intelligent bird.

    Blinds? Turkeys? Huh? 2009

  • Kind of makes you think twice about hunting in blinds on the ground, huh?

    Florida Vet Bags 17-Foot Python 2009

  • I know hunting turkeys with blinds is pretty popular these days, but I've never done it, and it blows my mind.

    Blinds? Turkeys? Huh? 2009

  • Kind of makes you think twice about hunting in blinds on the ground, huh?

    Florida Vet Bags 17-Foot Python 2009

  • In my view however and unfortunatley so, the best technique to clean window blinds is to take them down and give them a sponge bath in the shower with pinesol or lysol or something along those lines. any sort of cleaner will be okay.

    Brooklyn Blinds 2009

  • There was hunters set up right next to there red trucks in blinds w/binocs.

    Planning A Turkey Hunt To Kansas 2009

  • The first and most important aspect of picking shutters and blinds is to ensure that the degree of protection is just as much as we need/wish.

    Brooklyn Blinds 2009

  • ProQuo's Top 10 Creative Responses To Junk Mail has lots of good ideas for meatspace spam (making venetian blinds is a particularly good one).

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The two players to the left of the dealer make small forced bets (‘blinds’), and each player in turn must decide whether to fold their hand, match (‘call’) those bets or raise them.

    Paul Myerscough · Diary: Confessions of a Poker Player · LRB 29 January 2009 Paul Myerscough 2019

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