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blanket roll
noun
- a blanket or sleeping bag rolled into a cylindrical pack for easy carrying and outdoor use by hikers, soldiers, cowboys, etc., often with cooking utensils, food, and personal articles carried inside.
- a method of cheating at craps whereby the dice are thrown on a blanket, rug, or other soft surface so that they roll only in a forward direction, making it impossible for the four side numbers to appear face up.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of blanket roll1
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Example Sentences
She indicated the blanket roll on the floor very close to where I was standing.
When the long knives let them stop to rest at midday, she took from her blanket roll White Bear's knife.
Kit hustled for water, Jed skipped to get first-aid stuff from a blanket-roll, and I made an examination.
A blanket-roll, a saddle, a coil of rope, and a battered canteen and the fire--but no habitant of the camp.
Cheyenne pulled off his boots, stretched out on the blanket-roll, and sighed comfortably.
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