Cockeye

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An eye affected by strabismus.

    "How dared that miserable wretch cast his eye—his cock[-]eye, as Vroom had truly said—on Etta. It gave him a kind of grim pleasure to dwell on Looten's physical defect."

  2. 2
    The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.

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"How dared that miserable wretch cast his eye—his cock[-]eye, as Vroom had truly said—on Etta. It gave him a kind of grim pleasure to dwell on Looten's physical defect."

Etymology

From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).

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