"squint" = "narrow one's eyes" not in OED?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

Is this a BrE/AmE distinction? I'd never heard the 'to be cross-eyed'
sense of _squint_ until reading Neal's e-mail.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 08:45:38AM -0500, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> Incredible but true.
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> JL
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> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:
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> > Subject:      "squint" = "narrow one's eyes" not in OED?
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> > The term "squinting modifier" (what I'd call a forward/backward attachment
> > ambiguity) never made sense to me until I learned that "squint" can mean
> > "be
> > cross-eyed or wall-eyed, seem to look in two directions":
> > http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/squint/
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> > More surprising is that my definition, "narrow one's eyes", isn't in the
> > OED
> > at all, as far as I can tell.
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> > Neal Whitman
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