"stone-blind" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: References sandblind ("partially blind", alteration of samblind), and stone dead ("unquestionably dead"). Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} stone-blind (not comparable)
  1. Completely blind. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Vision Related terms: sand-blind, gravel-blind
    Sense id: en-stone-blind-en-adj-4paoCfzX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 82:",
          "text": "While recently addressing a large open-air audience in the district city itself, a man came forward and warmly invited me to dine with him. On inquiry, it turned out that he had formerly been stone-blind, but had been completely restored to sight by a simple operation at the hospital. Now, here was a man who would speak well of us, at all hazard ; and who, as a matter of fact, came home to his friends to tell them how great things the Lord had done for him.",
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          "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.",
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