two-and-a-half-point blanket

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

a grade of point blanket.

Quotations

1824

Made a present to the old man of a 2 1/2 pt Blanket to make him a Coat.

1887

A somewhat inferior quality, known in the Hudson's Bay Company parlance as a "two and a-half point" blanket, is the standard. . . .

1905

The [beaver's] skin was larger than a Hudson's Bay Company's 2 1/2 point blanket.