Definitions
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 theball of amillstone , which sits on thecockhead .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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You really have to be a cockeye to optimist, is the glass half empty or half full?
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Fig. 1 shows the cockeye attached to the single tree, and Fig. 2 exhibits parts in section, displaying the construction very clearly.
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And then, in short jerks, a grey, ragged, patched old lugsail, far too small for the boat, rose cockeye to the masthead.
Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934
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Now I've enjoyed the crystal dresses and the holographic goggles, the gratuitous body painting and the unsettling way you share your crotch with the audience but visible corrective undergarments is where I have to shut this space shuttle to the cockeye-ded fool down, silly!
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Nope, and I dont wanna … I might end up with a cockeye and Big ass forearms for no aparent reason
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