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Definitions of deadeye in various dictionaries:
noun - a dead shot
noun - (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud
A flat hardwood disk with a grooved perimeter, pierced by three holes through which the lanyards are passed, used to fasten the shrouds.
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| Annie Oakley, e.g. |
| Calamity Jane, e.g. |
| Sure shooter |
| Sure shot |
| Crack shot |
| Nickname for a sharpshooter |
| Marksman |
| Sharpshooter |
| Unerring marksman |
| Half blind on board |
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| Nautical A flat hardwood disk with a grooved perimeter, pierced by three holes through which the lanyards are passed, used to fasten the shrouds. |
| Slang An expert shooter: a deadeye with the rifle. |
| A circular wooden block with a groove round the circumference to take a lanyard, used singly or in pairs to tighten a shroud. |
| An expert marksman. |
| (nautical) a round hardwood disk with holes and a grooved perimeter used to tighten a shroud |
| a dead shot |
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A deadeye is an item used in the standing and running rigging of traditional sailing ships. It is a smallish round thick wooden (usually lignum vitae) disc with one or more holes through it, perpendicular to the plane of the disc. Single and triple-hole deadeyes are most commonly seen. The three-holed blocks were called deadeyes because the position of the three holes resemble the eye and nose sockets of a sheep's skull.* Single deadeyes (or bull's eyes) are used to guide and control a line and, particularly in older vessels, to change its direction. More modern systems would use a block for this purpose but in traditional rigs with many lines to deal with, designed when blocks were relatively expensive to make, a deadeye provided an acceptable compromise. When blocks came into common use for adjusting running rigging, deadeyes continued to be used for tensioning standing rigging. * * Triple deadeyes are used in pairs; a line called a lanyard is run back and forth between them, through t |