cockeye
noun 2
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1VERB + COCKEYE
focusing
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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.
“Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.
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.
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“Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.
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The next time I saw Dave, he'd joined Deep Purple and had just got back from Sweden, where the band had sent their new lead singer to have his cock-eye straightened.
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