Walleyed Definition

wôlīd
adjective
Affected with exotropia.
American Heritage Medicine
Having large bulging eyes, as some fish.
American Heritage Medicine
Having eyes wide-open and glaring, as in anger.
American Heritage Medicine
Having an eye with a light-colored iris or white or opaque cornea.
American Heritage Medicine
Intoxicated; drunk.
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Origin of Walleyed

  • Middle English wawileyed from Old Norse vagl-eygr vagl film over the eye wegh- in Indo-European roots auga eye okw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Walleyed Sentence Examples

  • The most valuable fish taken was walleyed pike, and the catch of this fish and of pickerel from Lake Champlain in 1902 exceeded in value that from any other body of fresh water in the United States excepting Lake Huron and Lake Erie.

  • There were eight hatcheries in 1910 and the number of fish distributed from these during 1908 was about 662,000,000; they consisted chiefly of pickerel, yellow perch, walleyed pike, white fish, herring, blue pike, trout and shad.

  • The fish are mainly the coarser species, such as carp, buffalo-fish and white perch; of better food fish, the principal varieties are bass (black, striped and rock), crappie, pike, "jack salmon" or walleyed pike, and sun fish.

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