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- noun blocked leather eye shields attached to a (usually) harness
bridle for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards, and partially sideways;blinders in (USA). - noun a fleece cover wrapped around the cheek strap of a racing bridle to limit the rear vision of racehorses.
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Examples
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Turning to Mac with a sense of relief, she gently took off his "winkers," as Jamie called them, and looked straight into the honest blue eyes that looked straight back at her, full of a frank and friendly affection that warmed her heart and made her own eyes brighten as she gave back the glasses, saying, with a look and tone of cordial satisfaction, "You are not changed, my dear old Mac, and I'm so glad of that!"
Rose in Bloom 1876
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"winkers," as Jamie called them, and looked straight into the honest blue eyes that looked straight back at her, full of a frank and friendly affection that warmed her heart and made her own eyes brighten as she gave back the glasses, saying, with a look and tone of cordial satisfaction, "You are not changed, my dear old Mac, and I'm so glad of that!"
Rose in Bloom Louisa May Alcott 1860
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Tremendously important to attract the other shallow, vacuous, winkers to the GOP.
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Hold tight to the reality that the conservative wrong wing really is dangerous ... over-stuffed buffoons, winkers, creationists, nature-defilers and all.
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Other times she loves them enough to whip out her winkers for a quick photoshoot.
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Slip into a pair of winkers and let your booty talk.
Worst jeans ever 2007
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Jesus, I had to laugh at the way he came out with that about the old one with the winkers on her, blind drunk in her royal palace every night of God, old Vic, with her jorum of mountain dew and her coachman carting her up body and bones to roll into bed and she pulling him by the whiskers and singing him old bits of songs about
Ulysses 2003
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You heard what Belinda said to me on the courts the other day-well I was sore and angry about it, and I just got all obstinate and thought Miss Roberts caught one or two of the winks and pounced on the winkers.
Summer Term At St Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967
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This prevents all upward vision; and blinds, or winkers, are so fixed at the sides of his eyes, as greatly to impede the view of all lateral objects.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829) Various
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Both knelt down and laved their faces and hands and, as Nan said, "wiggled the winkers out of their eyes."
Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr
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