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dead-eye

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Example Sentences

The single cable passed over a hook, and through a dead-eye, which completed the apparatus, and kept it in check.

Could I have turned in a dead-eye, or in the approved nautical style have clapt a seizing on the main-stay?

The upper end of each shroud has a loop spliced in, which goes over the mast-head, and a dead-eye is spliced into the lower end.

He had an oblique, dead eye, like that of a sting-ray, and the moustache of a cocktail mixer.

He still knelt where she had left him, looking up to her window, which gleamed like a dead eye in the moonlight.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dead-eye, such as: consciousness, mind, recollection, remembrance, thought, and anamnesis.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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