lynx-eyed

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English

Adjective

lynx-eyed (comparative more lynx-eyed, superlative most lynx-eyed)

  1. Possessing particularly good vision.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 131:
      Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]
    • 1940 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 264:
      It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.

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eagle-eyed — see eagle-eyed
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