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walleye

[ wawl-ahy ]

noun

, plural wall·eyes, wall·eye.
  1. Also called walleyed pike, jack salmon. a large game fish, Stizostedion vitreum, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of northeastern North America; pikeperch.
  2. any of various other fishes having large, staring eyes.
  3. an eye characteristic of a walleyed person or animal.
  4. Walleye, Military. a series of television-guided bombs with high-explosive warheads, in production since the 1960s.


walleye

/ ˈwɔːlˌaɪ /

noun

  1. a divergent squint
  2. opacity of the cornea
  3. an eye having a white or light-coloured iris
  4. (in some collies) an eye that is particoloured white and blue
  5. Also calledwalleyed pike a North American pikeperch, Stizostedion vitreum, valued as a food and game fish
  6. any of various other fishes having large staring eyes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈwallˌeyed, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of walleye1

First recorded in 1515–25; back formation from walleyed
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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

It’s hard to go wrong with any of the area’s campsites, but among the best are those at Horseshoe Lake, a narrow, scenic body of water that is home to excellent walleye fishing.

Natural walleye reproduction has dropped so much that from 1990 to 2000, about 60 percent of northern Wisconsin’s waters were sustained entirely by wild walleye.

The biggest problem is likely with walleye recruitment, according to Greg Sass, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s fisheries research team leader.

Billy Towler—alias Walleye—looked after him with an air of uncertainty.

Because brood-stock of the major sport-fishes is already present, stocking is unnecessary, except for walleye and northern pike.

Rack turned the walleye toward him, as though he could see out of it.

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.

"Calm down, boy," he said, his staring walleye gleaming in the lantern light.

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