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eye-string

eye-string is the alternative form of eyestring.

Meaning of eyestring

Noun

eyestring (plural eyestrings)

  1. (in plural, obsolete) One of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.
    • Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII

Forms of eye-string

pluraleye-strings

Questions about eye-string

What is eye-string the alternative form of?
Eye-string is the alternative form of eyestring.

Words near eye-string in the dictionary

  1. eye-socket
  2. eye-sockets
  3. eye-stalk
  4. eye-stalks
  5. eye-strain
  6. eye-string
  7. eye-strings
  8. eye-stripe
  9. eye-stripes
  10. eye-sweet
  11. Eye-talian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eye-string (page history and authors); eyestring (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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