A Limerick

[Towse]

"Baker, John" wrote:
>
>         I've been wondering about this old limerick for years, and it occurred to
>  me that the able membership of the ADS might know the answer.  This is from memory
> and originally from Harold Hart, Immortalia:  Limericks.
>
> There was a lovely young miss
> Who went down to the river to wash clothes
> But a man in a punt
> stuck an oar in her eye
> And now she has to wear glasses
>
>         I think I can work out the second and fourth lines, but for what word or
> phrase is the poem's closing a euphemism?

There was a young girl from Dundee
Was taking a swim in the sea
But a man in a punt
Stuck an oar in her ... eye
And now she wears glasses you see

Sal
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