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four-pointer
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a famous woollen blanket first used as trading goods at the Hudson's Bay Company posts.
See: four-point blanket
Quotations
1946
John set about making his blankets into a sleeping robe, only to discover that, while they were sufficient in weight, they were lacking in size. They should have been "four-pointers" instead of three and a half. . . .