When a pirate momentarily forgets he has a hook for a hand and uses it to scratch or rub an itchy eye thus taking out his own eye. The primary reason many pirates have eye patches.
Many pirates suffer accidental enucleation of the eye from rubbing the sleepers from their eyes with their hook hand.
by wolfbait51 May 25, 2011
Self-enucleation Is When one mentally ill person wants to take out there eyes it’s a form of self mutation
by ScrewballChan March 12, 2021