"eye-winker" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1858, Rose Terry Cooke, “Eben Jackson”, in Somebody’s Neighbors, Boston: James R. Osgood, published 1881, page 8",
          "text": "She never said nothin’ for a minute; she flushed all up as red as a rose, and I see her little fingers was shakin’, and her eye-winkers shiny and wet […]",
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          "ref": "1939, Robert P. T. Coffin, chapter 17, in Captain Abby and Captain John, New York: Macmillan, page 296",
          "text": "John saw a whale and let the boys up out of their caulked cabin to have a look at him. He was a sixty-footer. He sailed along with them companionable as could be. Freddie could count the eye-winkers, he said, by his little dark eyes.",
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        "An eyelash."
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        "(colloquial, US, dated) An eyelash."
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  "word": "eye-winker"
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          "text": "She never said nothin’ for a minute; she flushed all up as red as a rose, and I see her little fingers was shakin’, and her eye-winkers shiny and wet […]",
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        "An eyelash."
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        "(colloquial, US, dated) An eyelash."
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