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  • To make the digital record, the cow is held in what's known as a squeeze chute and the scanner's eye-cup, specially molded for a cow's face, is held to each animal's eye.

    Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005

  • He prepared his black bag for the day's calls -- stethoscope, thermometer, eye-cup, bandages, case of small vials, a lump of absorbent cotton in a not over-fresh towel; in the bottom, a heterogeneous collection of instruments,

    K Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Fill a glass eye-cup (which can be bought in any drug store or department store) with water, bend the head forward and press the cup securely against the eye; then bend backward and open and shut the lid a number of times.

    Nature Cure Henry Lindlahr 1893

  • "Just think," she said as he went for water to use in my eye-cup, "he is going to meet the girl he is in love with out at the park.

    Tish 1916

  • "Just think," she said as he went for water to use in my eye-cup, "he is going to meet the girl he is in love with out at the park.

    Tish Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

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