gravel-blind
adjEtymology
By analogy with sand-blind ("partly blind") and stone-blind ("entirely blind"), with the latter also formed by analogy.
Definitions
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.
- 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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gravel-blind. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA