Sentence:  ‘We're like father and Aunt Nina, hanging on the wall in the library. Mother's got big black eyes, with <WSD>winkers</WSD> a rod long, and her hair shines like my velvet coat, and comes most to her feet.' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An eyelash.<ref>John Jamieson, "A Dictionary of the Scottish Language", abridged by John Johnstone, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1846, p.(nbsp)758.[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofscot00jamirich]</ref>