lynx-eyed

comparative more lynx-eyed · superlative most lynx-eyed

1. Possessing particularly good vision.

   Hetty and Mrs. Piper watched them with a lynx-eyed understanding[.]

   1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 131

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   It was hardly to be expected that the maximum speed of 100 m.p.h. claimed for the Great Western locomotive Builth Castle, in my February article would escape the lynx-eyed scrutiny of readers.

   1940 May, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 264

   Synonyms: eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed