Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The socket of an eye.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A hole or an opening, as in a mask, or in a curtain or door, through which one may look; a peep-hole.
  • noun A circular opening, as in a bar, to receive a pin, hook, rope, or ring; an eye.
  • noun One of the three orifices of a cocoanut. Also eye-spot.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope.
  • noun The hole in a helmet, skull, etc. corresponding to the position of the eye.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar
  • noun a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep

Etymologies

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eye +‎ hole

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Examples

  • At this point I am visualising going around in a large brown paper bag with eyehole slits.

    Eyeball to eyeball (with tooth-sucking….) « Write Anything 2010

  • It's the old thread the needle analogy, but the eyehole may have gotten a little bigger since yesterday's discussion.

    Sunday snow threat is back, sort of... Wes Junker 2010

  • 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.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • 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.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • Lisa Fetch answers the door of her condo after peering through the eyehole.

    Thirst No. 3 Christopher Pike 2010

  • 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.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • 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.

    DEVILS IN EXILE Chuck Hogan 2010

  • 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.

    The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009

  • 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.

    The Monstrumologist William James Henry 2009

  • 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.

    India Security Faulted as Survivors Tell of Terror 2008

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