"eye-word" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Edward Kirby Putnam, Spelling Reform and Authority in Language: A Paper Read Before the Contemporary Club, Davenport, Iowa, December 26, 1907, page 7",
          "text": "We may hesitate whether \"churl\" is to be pronounced with a k or with a soft ch sound, because we do not use the word commonly in speech and hence it is becoming more of an eye-word than an ear-word.",
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        "A word encountered more often in writing than in speech, and thus liable to be pronounced incorrectly."
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  "word": "eye-word"
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    {
      "form": "eye-words",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with quotations"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1908, Edward Kirby Putnam, Spelling Reform and Authority in Language: A Paper Read Before the Contemporary Club, Davenport, Iowa, December 26, 1907, page 7",
          "text": "We may hesitate whether \"churl\" is to be pronounced with a k or with a soft ch sound, because we do not use the word commonly in speech and hence it is becoming more of an eye-word than an ear-word.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A word encountered more often in writing than in speech, and thus liable to be pronounced incorrectly."
      ],
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