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gravel-blind

gravel-blind adjective: more than partially blind, but not completely blind.

Adjective

gravel-blind (not comparable)

  1. More than partially blind, but not completely blind.
    • O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • 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.1942 October 3, John Ware, “Nomenclature of Night Blindness”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 4265, →PMID, page 409

Origin of gravel-blind

By analogy with sand-blind ("partly blind") and stone-blind ("entirely blind"), with the latter also formed by analogy.

Questions about gravel-blind

What does gravel-blind mean?
Gravel-blind means more than partially blind, but not completely blind.
What part of speech is gravel-blind?
Gravel-blind is an adjective.

Words near gravel-blind in the dictionary

  1. gravel roads
  2. gravel stop
  3. gravel stops
  4. gravel trap
  5. gravel traps
  6. gravel-blind
  7. gravel-walk
  8. gravel-walks
  9. graveldiver
  10. graveldivers
  11. graveled

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