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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A squinting eye.

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A squinting eye.
  • noun (Mach.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun engineering The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably cock + eye.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

cock +‎ eye

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