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lynx-eyed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. 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