See gravel-blind on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_text": "By analogy with sand-blind (\"partly blind\") and stone-blind (\"entirely blind\"), with the latter also formed by analogy.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "gravel-blind (not comparable)", "name": "en-adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "related": [ { "word": "sand-blind" }, { "word": "stone-blind" } ], "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English adjectives", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English terms with quotations", "English uncomparable adjectives", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "en:Vision" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 167, column 1:", "text": "O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "1942 October 3, John Ware, “Nomenclature of Night Blindness”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 4265, →PMID, page 409:", "text": "A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "More than partially blind, but not completely blind." ], "links": [ [ "blind", "blind" ] ], "tags": [ "not-comparable" ] } ], "word": "gravel-blind" }
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