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walleye
[ wawl-ahy ]
noun
, plural wall·eyes, wall·eye.
- Also called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America; pikeperch.
- any of various other fishes having large, staring eyes.
- an eye characteristic of a walleyed person or animal.
- Walleye, Military. a series of television-guided bombs with high-explosive warheads, in production since the 1960s.
walleye
/ ˈwɔːlˌaɪ /
noun
- a divergent squint
- opacity of the cornea
- an eye having a white or light-coloured iris
- (in some collies) an eye that is particoloured white and blue
- Also calledwalleyed pike a North American pikeperch, Stizostedion vitreum, valued as a food and game fish
- any of various other fishes having large staring eyes
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Derived Forms
- ˈwallˌeyed, adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of walleye1
back formation from earlier walleyed, from Old Norse vagleygr, from vage, perhaps: a film over the eye (compare Swedish vagel sty in the eye) + -eygr -eyed, from auga eye; modern form influenced by wall
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Example Sentences
Billy Towler—alias Walleye—looked after him with an air of uncertainty.
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Because brood-stock of the major sport-fishes is already present, stocking is unnecessary, except for walleye and northern pike.
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Rack turned the walleye toward him, as though he could see out of it.
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The spirits of trout and salmon and bass and walleye and sunfish and pike, all the fish of lakes and streams that fed his people.
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"Calm down, boy," he said, his staring walleye gleaming in the lantern light.
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