dead-eyes

And now that they're using Cameron's tech we won't have the dead-eyes look that we always see in Zemeckis 'films.

Steven Spielberg Talks About the Tech and the Look of Tintin | /Film 2010

Yet we still give credence to the murders and nuance their crocodile tears and dead-eyes as if it mattered.

Biden-Palin Debate: Discipline and Heart Beat Fluff, No Stuff 2008

That first clown's "eyes" need to be tilted only slightly to one side and he'd have the dead-eyes look like when cartoons get killed.

Why Are the Children Screaming? Jen 2008

The boat's davits and the dead-eyes of the lower rigging are all inside the bulwarks.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 Various

Jumping into the water at this point, he swam towards the spot where he thought the entrance to the forecastle should lie, for the sea was washing about forward, and nothing to be seen above the surface but a small portion of the port bulwarks near the dead-eyes of the fore-shrouds and a bit of the port cat-head.

The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

Usually one of these dead-eyes is held by an iron strap to the point where it is required to fix and strain the cordage, which is ordinarily a shroud.

Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Standing rigging, when stranded or shot away, is most readily and effectually secured for the moment by using stoppers composed of two small dead-eyes, fitted with double selvagee tails and lanyards, of sizes suitable to the rigging, whether lower or topmast.

Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

And all the strange and curious sea jargon, of which not one landsman in a thousand understands anything -- combings and back-stays and dead-eyes, and the rest of it -- takes a salt smack of romance in his lips.

My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray

"No," said the "pirate," turning on Owen his lusterless sea-green eyes, faded by much grog to a dimness that reminded one of the faint lights set in ships 'decks and known as "dead-eyes."

The Perils of Pauline Charles Goddard 1915

Now reeve your jib-sheets [lines] through them dead-eyes [hame rings] and pass 'em aft.

Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907