cockeye

English

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

Etymology

Compound from English cock (penis, male domestic chicken, a shock pile of grain, diminutive suffix, male, a roundish heap, rooster) + English eye.

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English

eye

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