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There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun shutter eye. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.

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OED's earliest evidence for shutter eye is from before 1884, in a dictionary by Edward H. Knight, patent lawyer and expert in mechanics.

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