Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The socket of an eye.
- n. See peephole.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hole or an opening, as in a mask, or in a curtain or door, through which one may look; a peep-hole.
- n. A circular opening, as in a bar, to receive a pin, hook, rope, or ring; an eye.
- n. One of the three orifices of a cocoanut. Also eye-spot.
Wiktionary
- n. The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope.
- n. The hole in a helmet, skull, etc. corresponding to the position of the eye.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar
- n. a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep
Etymologies
- eye + hole (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At this point I am visualising going around in a large brown paper bag with eyehole slits.”
“It's the old thread the needle analogy, but the eyehole may have gotten a little bigger since yesterday's discussion.”
“He wound the string through the eyehole and got it spinning on the pad of his finger, the rotor tumbling inside the whirring gimbals while the exterior remained fixed.”
“Lisa Fetch answers the door of her condo after peering through the eyehole.”
“Next he reached into the crate and withdrew a metal rod, about four feet long and two inches round, pointed on one end and looped on the other to create an eyehole.”
“A diabetic who was running low on insulin, he peeked through the eyehole in hope of rescue and saw three uniformed men with assault rifles, he says.”
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“Instead of wearing an eyepatch, why doesn't Alan Scott just leave one eyehole of his mask closed?”
“First, I balanced the heavy plastic base of the portable basketball system while Jean-Marc tried to insert a heavy three-meter pole, connecting a dangling bolt with a hard-to-see, impossible-to-reach eyehole.”
“Grabbing one lash, she dabbed special glue on it, then carefully reached into the eyehole of her mask and applied it.”
“I happened to be staring at the eyehole, and i saw it turn dark then light again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyehole’.
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See, The Eyes Have It
List of words (or phrases) containing eye-, -eye-, or -eye. Beginning with red-eye and eyebright.
I've since begun adding other more oblique terms that lack the string -eye-, but that...red-eye, eyebright, arguw-eye, bigeye, bird's-eye, buckeye, blarneyed, wheyey, eyebrow, eyecup, eyedropper, eyeful and 296 more...
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Holes
judas, judas-hole, hole, creephole, pinhole, spy-eye, blowhole, breathing-hole, spiracle, touchhole, mouth, cakehole and 166 more...
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