To put out (an eye).
1844. He had used these weapons with distinguished effect in several instances; all duly chronicled in the newspapers; and was greatly beloved for the gallant manner in which he had “jobbed out” the eye of one gentleman, as he was in the act of knocking at his own street-door.—Dickens, ‘Martin Chuzzlewit,’ chap. xxxiii. (N.E.D.)
1846. Let the young Samson of the West beware that he is not … delivered into the hands of the Philistines, and his eyes jobbed out.—Mr. McClernand of Illinois, House of Repr., June 16: Cong. Globe, p. 983.
