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two-and-a-half-point blanket
a grade of point blanket.
1824
 
(1955)
 
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
 
(1954)
 
The [beaver's] skin was larger than a Hudson's Bay Company's 2 1/2 point blanket.