Definition of "quick-eared" []

• Having keen hearing (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The feathers were so soft that not even a quick-eared mouse could hear an owl swooping silently down!"
• "Ferdinand's spies were, a quick-eared legion -- the spirit-stirring Hymn of the Constitution, or the wild Tragala -- that Spanish Marseillaise, to whose exciting notes rivers of blood have flowed."
• "She rose presently, quick-eared to wait the call, and went to her desk in the window."