ˈringle-eye Sc.
In form -ee, -e'e.
[f. ringle n.1 Cf. Da. ring{obar}jet, Norw. ring{obar}ygd, Icel. hringeygur adjs., and ringed a. 3 (quot. 1513).]
A wall-eye.
| 1826 Galt Lairds xxxix, Geordie Joug wi' his ringle-ee. 1885 Strathesk More Bits fr. Blinkbonny i. 8 She's terrible sair pockmarkit, an' she has a ringle ee. |
So ˈringle-eyed a. (Also north.)
| 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 63 He's out-shin'd, inkneed and ringle-ey'd too. 1894 Heslop Northumb. Gloss. s.v., The pupil of the eye in a dog, etc., that is ringle-eyed is surrounded by a whity ring. 1897 P. H. Hunter J. Armiger's Revenge vi, Ane o' thae ringle-e'ed brutes that startle at a' the dibs an' straes on the road. |