Blinders, in the art of war, a sort of defense commonly made of oozers, or branches interwoven, and laid across between two rows of stakes, about the height of a man, and four or five feet asunder. They are used particularly at the heads of trenches when these extend in front towards the glacis, and serve to shelter the workmen, and to prevent their being overlooked by the enemy.

Blinks, among ancient sportsmen, denoted boughs broken down from trees, and thrown in the way where deer were likely to pass, to hinder their running, or rather to mark which way a deer ran, and thus to guide the hunter in pursuit.