Blackett
Proper noun
Meaning
Blackett (plural Blacketts)
A surname from Middle English.
Examples
"Guitar Heroes: How to Play Like 26 Guitar Gods from Atkins to Zappa", edited by Jude Gold and Matt Blackett, Guitar Player, p.111.
History was made yesterday at the Finals of the 2018 National Primary Schools’ Athletics Championships when St. Alban’s became the first school from the Andrea Blackett Zone to win a crown by claiming the Boys’ title.
Taking on the 5K course, which moved off from the insurance company’s Roebuck Street headquarters at 6 a.m., Blackett won from a stacked field to lead home Rudolph Rock and Micah Stuart.
When he learned that the London publishing firm of Hurst & Blackett had secured the rights to publish an abridgement in the United Kingdom, he offered it for free in April 1933.
Blackett observed "there can be few cases where such a great operational gain had been obtained by such a small and simple change of tactics".
The Manheim translation was first published in the United Kingdom by Hurst & Blackett in 1969 amid some controversy.