thimble-eyedadj. having eyes like thimbles, as this fish.
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thimble-eyed1815
1815 Trans. Lit. & Philos. Soc. N.Y.1 422Thimble eyed, bull eyed, or chub mackerel..comes occasionally in prodigious numbers to the coast of New-York in autumn.
1891 Cent. Dict.Thimble-eyed,..used of the chub-mackerel.