Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A squinting eye.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A squinting eye; strabismus.
- n. The depression on the balance-rynd of a millstone that receives the point of the spindle.
- n. In a harness, the loop at the end of a trace, by means of which it is attached to the swingletree.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A squinting eye.
- n. (Mach.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
Etymologies
- cock + eye (Wiktionary)
- Probably cock1 + eye. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You really have to be a cockeye to optimist, is the glass half empty or half full?”
“Fig. 1 shows the cockeye attached to the single tree, and Fig. 2 exhibits parts in section, displaying the construction very clearly.”
“And then, in short jerks, a grey, ragged, patched old lugsail, far too small for the boat, rose cockeye to the masthead.”
“Now I've enjoyed the crystal dresses and the holographic goggles, the gratuitous body painting and the unsettling way you share your crotch with the audience but visible corrective undergarments is where I have to shut this space shuttle to the cockeye-ded fool down, silly!”
“Nope, and I dont wanna … I might end up with a cockeye and Big ass forearms for no aparent reason”
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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