bull's-eye window

American  

noun

1. bull's-eye.

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Etymology

Origin of bull's-eye window

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

One Saturday, a farmer's wife, perched on a ladder out of doors, was eagerly polishing the glass of a bull's-eye window.

From Six Women and the Invasion by Yerta, Gabrielle

His cab is protected both overhead and at the sides, while his bull's-eye window permits him to look ahead without receiving the wind, dust, and snow in his eyes.

From The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin by Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)

The light which shone through the dirty and tightly closed "bull's-eye" window showed a tumbled bunk, the blankets soiled and streaked.

From Keziah Coffin by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

A little paper tied to a string hung in front of my bull's-eye window to-day: I took it in.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

"I can't get through there," he said, examining the bull's-eye window.

From The Chouans by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott