Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Nautical, a round, laterally flattened wooden block, encircled by a rope or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard, used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes.
- n. In mech., a bearing made in a solid piece, and not split into halves or provided for taking up wear: used mostly in cheap and temporary work.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also
deadman's eye .
WordNet 3.0
- n. (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud
- n. a dead shot
Examples
“She just ruins the trailer for me with her constant hair flip and dead-eye expression ... * sigh* however, Dakota Fanning's acting looks PHENOMENAL.”
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“Soccer also has its dead-eye shooters and 6-foot-5 centers who dominate at one level but vanish at the next.”
“Denver Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups says Williams is a dead-eye shooter.”
“The ball itself could arc out, jag in, scuttle under even the most dead-eye dick batsman's bat or knock his ruddy block off.”
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“Ray hung out the passenger side, snapped his fingers, gave me his dead-eye smile.”
“Al'Lonzo Coleman was a second-team All-Big South player as a sophomore and Pierre Miller is a dead-eye shooter who can extend a defense.”
“If even BP doesn't know how to stop the flow, how do you expect federal agencies to do anything – ESPECIALLY after they were defanged and declawed by dead-eye dick and energy executives during those secret energy meetings?”
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“Kirk Korver, younger brother of NBA player Kyle Korver, has the bloodlines of an dead-eye shooter and could develop into a solid shooter in the next year or so.”
“So I went to your page to see what you could do with a current subject and found your dead-eye shot at Ann Coulter.”
“Yet each time, he has returned and resumed his dead-eye scoring ways.”
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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chained_bear "...counting the slips that would enable the officers in charge of the base to revictual and refit the squadron with all the astonishing variety of objects it might need, from musket-flints to dead-eyes, hearts and euphroes."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Hundred Days, 76
"A flat round wooden block with three holes through which a lanyard is rove, used for extending the shrouds. Also, the triangular blocks with one large hole, usually called hearts, used for extending the stays." (A Sea of Words, 168) Mar 20, 2008