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Antonyms for dead-eye

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ded-ahy
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɛdˌaɪ

Definition of dead-eye

  • As in memory : noun ability to hold in the mind
Example sentences :
  • The turning-in of a dead-eye with the end of the shroud down.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • The dead-eye is put in and the eye driven down with a commander.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 8 » by Various
  • Collier; he liked to read about a Dead-Eye Dick, but never wanted to be one.
  • Extract from : « In Pawn » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • Also, a rope formed into a wreath, with a heart or dead-eye seized in the bight, to which the stay is confined at the lower part.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • A piece of iron used instead of a chain to confine the dead-eye of the backstay to the after-channel.
  • Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
  • The single cable passed over a hook, and through a dead-eye, which completed the apparatus, and kept it in check.
  • Extract from : « Toilers of the Sea » by Victor Hugo
  • Could I have turned in a dead-eye, or in the approved nautical style have clapt a seizing on the main-stay?
  • Extract from : « Redburn. His First Voyage » by Herman Melville
  • 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.
  • Extract from : « Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 » by Various
  • Do not mistake the "dead-eye" that nature put on my foreleg for a wart to be exterminated.
  • Extract from : « Around The Tea-Table » by T. De Witt Talmage

Synonyms for dead-eye

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