1. The muscles or tendons that control eye movement; the extraocular muscles.
Usage: archaic or poetic; rarely used in modern medical terminology
2. Emotional bonds or attachments, especially those connecting a parent to a child.
Usage: figurative; archaic

Examples

• The surgeon examined the patient's eyestrings to assess the range of eye movement.
• A mother's eyestrings are pulled tight when her child leaves home.
• The poet wrote of love's eyestrings binding two souls together.
• Damage to the eyestrings can result in difficulty moving the eyes in certain directions.