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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A squinting eye.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A squinting eye; strabismus.
  2. n. The depression on the balance-rynd of a millstone that receives the point of the spindle.
  3. n. In a harness, the loop at the end of a trace, by means of which it is attached to the swingletree.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A squinting eye.
  2. n. The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

Etymologies

  1. Probably cock1 + eye.

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