blanket ((v.))

Mining

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

stake only the margins of a group of claims so as to give the impression that staking has been done fully and properly.

Quotations

1913

I ought to go . . . make sure they don't blanket anything of mine.

2v.

cover; take in; include.

1953

The claims are stated to blanket a favorable structure from which high-value assays of uranium have been taken.