Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A clerk in a post-office whose duty it is to decipher obscure or illegible addresses on letters.
  • noun Called blind-reader in the United States.
  • noun A blind or blinded person: used as a single word in certain phrases and names.

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Examples

  • The youngest thought half the fun was to see our enthusiasm in "blindman's bluff," "fox and geese," and "bean bags."

    Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

  • The 'blindman' seen everywhere is David Blunkett, who is blind himself, the then UK Home Secretary who introduced these measures & other similar laws.

    Friday Music: Mark E. Smith and The Fall Kay Olson 2009

  • You know playin 'blindman's bluff is a little baby's game

    Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 1973

  • 'Mekusangokko,' which is a sort of 'blindman's buff.'

    Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • "blindman," who had riddled out the address, was quite willing to give me the parcel without further ado, but I said: --

    Russian Rambles Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889

  • After landing in the USA years later, he proceeded to walk from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he found gainful employment, by dressing up like a blindman and selling pencils on the street.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • After landing in the USA years later, he proceeded to walk from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he found gainful employment, by dressing up like a blindman and selling pencils on the street.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

  • Had not Lincoln been made a martyr for the ages his fate might have been similar. blindman

    #200 for Abe the Warmonger « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • Doing something to save lives is NOT a moral imperative in your world since explaining morality to you would be like trying to explain the color blue to a blindman.

    Think Progress » DC Media Scoff At President Obama’s Substantive And Detailed Answer To Health Care Question 2010

  • After landing in the USA years later, he proceeded to walk from New York to Kansas City, Missouri, where he found gainful employment, by dressing up like a blindman and selling pencils on the street.

    Roseanne Archy Roseanne Barr 2011

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