ONE-EYED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-eyed mean? 

• ONE-EYED (adjective)
  The adjective ONE-EYED has 1 sense:

1. having or showing only one eye

  Familiarity information: ONE-EYED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-EYED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing only one eye

Context example:

the three one-eyed Cyclopes of Greek myth

Similar:

eyed (having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination)

 Context examples 

I bid you have a care, master, or there will be some one-eyed folk along the road you drive.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nevertheless, he ran with his head even with the shoulder of his one-eyed elder.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The fierce Sir Hugh Calverley, with his yellow mane, and the rugged Sir Robert Knolles, with their war-hardened and veteran companies of English bowmen, headed the long column; while behind them came the turbulent bands of the Bastard of Breteuil, Nandon de Bagerant, one-eyed Camus, Black Ortingo, La Nuit and others whose very names seem to smack of hard hands and ruthless deeds.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the next day Koona went, and but five of them remained: Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim feel of his feet.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“Those rascals over yonder manage things better,” said an old one-eyed captain, with the blue-and-white riband for St. Vincent peeping out of his third buttonhole.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He caught the one-eyed elder on his blind side and ripped his ear into ribbons.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the end there remained only four: the she-wolf, the young leader, the one-eyed one, and the ambitious three- year-old.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The she-wolf, the young leader on her left, and the one-eyed elder on her right, led their half of the pack down to the Mackenzie River and across into the lake country to the east. Each day this remnant of the pack dwindled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)