Definition of "cockeye" []

• A squinting eye. (noun)

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• "You really have to be a cockeye to optimist, is the glass half empty or half full?"
• "Fig. 1 shows the cockeye attached to the single tree, and Fig. 2 exhibits parts in section, displaying the construction very clearly."
• "And then, in short jerks, a grey, ragged, patched old lugsail, far too small for the boat, rose cockeye to the masthead."