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語源

eye +‎ string

名詞

eyestring (複数形 eyestrings)

1. (obsolete, anatomy, chiefly in the plural) One of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.
   • 1590, Spenser, Edmund, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII:

     Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye

     [paraphrase] Or ever sleep his eye-strings did untie

   • a. 1611, Shakespeare, William, Cymbeline, Act 1, Scene 4:

     I would have broke mine eyestrings, cracked them, but / To look upon him,