"cockeye" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).",
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          "ref": "1894, Louis Zangwill, A Drama in Dutch, page 168:",
          "text": "How dared that miserable wretch cast his eye—his cock[-]eye, as Vroom had truly said—on Etta. It gave him a kind of grim pleasure to dwell on Looten's physical defect.",
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          "ref": "1920, William Patterson White, Lynch Lawyers, page 257:",
          "text": "“Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.",
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          "ref": "2006, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Common As Muck!: The Autobiography of Roy 'Chubby' Brown:",
          "text": "The next time I saw Dave, he'd joined Deep Purple and had just got back from Sweden, where the band had sent their new lead singer to have his cock-eye straightened.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Bea L. Brown, Wally the Cockeyed Cricket:",
          "text": "His cockeye ogled the pile of food sitting on the table. “Delicious!” he said with glee. The cockeyed cricket licked his lips […]",
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          "ref": "2019, Bill Bishop, Two Hearts, page 9:",
          "text": "As flies swarmed around a nearby outhouse, Molly B eyed him for a moment, looking him up and down with a cockeye that seemed to have a life of its own.",
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        "An eye affected by strabismus."
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        "The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead."
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        "(engineering) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead."
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      "word": "cock-eye"
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          "ref": "1894, Louis Zangwill, A Drama in Dutch, page 168:",
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          "text": "“Fine day, gents,” said he, focusing his cockeye.",
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          "text": "The next time I saw Dave, he'd joined Deep Purple and had just got back from Sweden, where the band had sent their new lead singer to have his cock-eye straightened.",
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