Tigris eye

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  • The literal eye of a tiger
  • Tiger is used in Australian slang to refer to a person in menial employment, e.g. a sheep-shearer
  • Tiger's Eye: A yellow-brown, semiprecious chatoyant gemstone consisting of quartz with parallel veins of silicified altered crocidolite.
  • The Tigris (Old Persian Tigr; Aramaic Assyrian Deqlath; Arabic دجلة, Dijla; Turkish Dicle; Hebrew חידקל; biblical Hiddekel) is the eastern member of the pair of great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates, which flows from the mountains of Anatolia through Iraq. (Cf. Tigris at Wikipedia)