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lynx-eyed en · ADJ
Meanings
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Possessing particularly good vision.
It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.
1940 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 264:Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]
1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131:
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Synonyms
hawk-eyed · eagle-eyed