eyelet

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Instead of a worm-gear-driven level wind and eyelet, a shaped bar rocks back and forth like a see-saw as incoming line travels across it, and that see-saw motion works effectively to spread line across the spool as you crank.

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  1. noun A small hole or perforation, usually rimmed with metal, cord, fabric, or leather, used for fastening with a cord or hook.
  2. noun A metal ring designed to reinforce such a hole; a grommet.
  3. noun A small hole edged with embroidered stitches as part of a design.
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  • Each scrap of lace, pearl button, and hook and eyelet was a provocative challenge to his desire. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • The string had an old metal eyelet on it, as if the eyelet was all that was left of a paper label There were three guest rooms on the ground floor, four on the second, and four on the third. —  Lee Child - [Reacher 12] - Nothing to Lose
  • Instead of a worm-gear-driven level wind and eyelet, a shaped bar rocks back and forth like a see-saw as incoming line travels across it, and that see-saw motion works effectively to spread line across the spool as you crank. —  Field & Stream -
  • Double crochet three more stitches into the same eyelet, then chain one.
  • There was a hole in each door--eyelet, so called--of about an inch in diameter. —  The Awakening The Resurrection
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  1. Alteration (influenced by eye) of Middle English oilet, from Old French oillet, diminutive of oil, eye, from Latin oculus; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An accommodation (as if from eye + diminutive -let) of earlier oilet, oylet, oyliet, oillet, oelet, from Middle English oylet, olyet, a hole, from Old French oeillet, French œillet, diminutive of Old French oeil, French œil, from Latin oculus, eye: see eye.
  2. eyelet, n.
 

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