eyestring

plural eyestrings · alternative eye-string

1. in pluralobsoleteanatomyOne of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.

   Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII

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

   a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 4