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▪ I. cock-eye, n.1 and a. colloq.
[app. f. cock v.1
Ir. and Gaelic caog ‘wink’, and esp. caogshuil ‘squint eye’, caogshuileach ‘squint-eyed’, have been compared; but no historical connexion is known, and the pronunciation of caog differs considerably from that of cock.]
A. n.
a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Cock-eye, a squinting eye; which must be set or cocked, like the lock of a gun, before aim can be taken at an object. 1877N.W. Lincolnsh. Gloss., Cock-eye, one who squints. She's a real cock-eye.
B. adj.
1. Cock-eyed, ‘topsy-turvy’. colloq.
1899Kipling Stalky 299 Don't see how you can make Latin prose much more cock-eye than it is, but we'll try, said Beetle, transposing an aliud and Asia from two sentences. 1928Sunday Express 16 Dec. 2/1 The world is all going cock-eye.
2. cock-eye Bob, a cyclone or thunderstorm. local Austral. slang.
1926Austral. Encycl. II. 66/2 ‘Cock-eye Bob’ is the name given to thunder-squalls which occur frequently on the north-west coast of Western Australia during the summer months. 1937I. L. Idriess Forty Fathoms Deep viii. 73 Almost daily the sky blackened as cock-eye bobs shrieked upon them, to lash them in sheets of rain. 1938X. Herbert Capricornia iii. 24 A storm of the type called Cockeye Bob in Capricornia..burst over Flying Fox in the middle of the night. 1949Geogr. Mag. Feb. 373 The Cock-eye-Bob, or cyclone, of north-west Australia.
3. cockeye pilot = Beau-gregory.
1905D. S. Jordan Guide to Study of Fishes II. xxii. 383 The ‘cockeye pilot’, or jaqueta,..green with black bands, swarms in the West Indies. 1930[see Beau-gregory].
▪ II. cock-eye2
1. The loop at the end of a trace by which it is attached to the swingletree, etc.
1850Rep. Comm. Patents 1849 266 The combination of the loop of the trace with a sectional cross piece (B), and a Cockeye (A), whereby the trace is secured to a swivel cockeye. a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Cock-eye,..an iron loop on the end of a trace, adapted to catch over the pin on the end of a single-tree. Originally woodcock eye. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 327/1 Japanned Screw Cockeyes.
2. (See quot.)
a1877Knight Dict. Mech., Cock-eye (Milling), a cavity on the under-side of the balance-rynd to receive the point of the spindle. |